Gen.
Kaira O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01498 ]
N.B.: original spelling is Kaira, not Caira; type species designation of Kaira gibberosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890 by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 522 invalid, as only one species (Kaira altiventer) was published in 1889; considered a senior synonym of Pronarachne Mello-Leitão, 1937a: 8 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05294] (type P. aries Mello-Leitão, 1937 = Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) and Macpos Mello-Leitão, 1940a: 59 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05293] (type M. monstrosus Mello-Leitão, 1940) by Levi, 1977b: 214, and of Haliger Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 180 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05295] (type H. corniferus Mello-Leitão, 1943 = Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889), transferred from the Theridiosomatidae, by Levi, 1993c: 210.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-03-05
2024-03-05
Described in
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 56 (type Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889; gender feminine)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 56 (type Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 17 | accepted |
| 6 | synonym |
| 2 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] 
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