Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Caerostris

Caerostris sexcuspidata (Fabricius, 1793)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-07-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015482]
  • Distribution: Cameroon to Ethiopia and to South Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar
  • External Resources *:
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Caerostris mimicus Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris schubotzi Strand, 1913, (20779, 20779a–b; incl. paratype)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris voeltzkowi Strand, 1916, (20780–82; incl. paratypes)
  • Holotype: ; Aranea sexcuspidata Fabricius, 1793 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1978.11.1.43) of Caerostris hnatiukae (Roberts, 1983)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris insularis Strand, 1913, (20776–78)
  • Allotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; jf (BMNH 1978.11.1.44) of Caerostris hnatiukae (Roberts, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Aranea sexcuspidata Fabricius, 1793: 427 (Df).
Epeira sexcuspidata Walckenaer, 1805: 67.
Gasteracantha sexcuspidata C. L. Koch, 1837a: 36, f. 271 (f).
Epeira imperialis Walckenaer, 1841: 147, pl. 18, f. 1 (Df; superfluous new name for Epeira sexcuspidata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061392].
Eurysoma sexcuspidata C. L. Koch, 1850: 9.
Epeira tuberculosa Vinson, 1863: 228, 314, pl. 14, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061386].
Caerostris mitralis humilis Thorell, 1868b: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061377].
Caerostris mitralis turrigera Thorell, 1868b: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061378].
Caerostris wahlbergii Thorell, 1868b: 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061390].
Caerostris keyserlingii Thorell, 1868b: 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061374].
Caerostris tuberculosa Lenz, 1886: 384.
Caerostris sexcuspidata Simon, 1895a: 831, f. 876-879, 881-882 (f, Dm).
Caerostris femoralis Thorell, 1899: 63 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061371].
Caerostris argostictus Pocock, 1900g: 855, pl. 55, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061393].
Caerostris femoralis Pocock, 1902b: 328 (S of Caerostris argostictus).
Caerostris mimicus Strand, 1906b: 624 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061376].
Caerostris tuberculosa Strand, 1908f: 470.
Caerostris sexcuspidata Tullgren, 1910: 167, pl. 4, f. 121 (f).
Caerostris kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910: 168, pl. 4, f. 122 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061375].
Caerostris schubotzi Strand, 1913a: 383 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061382].
Caerostris insularis Strand, 1913a: 384 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061373].
Caerostris tuberculosa Strand, 1916b: 62.
Caerostris voeltzkowi Strand, 1916d: 119 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061389].
Caerostris sexcuspidata Bonnet, 1956: 922 (S of Epeira = Eurysoma imperialis).
Caerostris hnatiukae Roberts, 1983: 280, f. 215-221 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061372].
Caerostris sexcuspidata Grasshoff, 1984: 736, f. 8-9, 11, 14-18, 46-47 (mf, S of Caerostris femoralis, C. hnatiukae, C. insularis, C. keyserlingi, C. kibonotensis, C. mimica, C. mitralis humilis, C. mitralis turrigera, C. schubotzi, C. tuberculosa, C. voeltzkowi and C. wahlbergi).
Caerostris sexcuspidata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 45, p. 43: 1 unnumbered f., p. 45: 6 unnumbered f., p. 46: 4 unnumbered f. (f).
References

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022d). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 1 (A-C). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326922 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. II. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae [= Copenhagen], 519 pp. [Aranea pp. 407-428]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122153 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1984). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Caerostris (Arachnida: Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 98(4): 725-765. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Dritter Band, pp. 105-119, pl. 106-118 (f. 246-252); Vierter Band, pp. 1-108, pl. 119-138 (f. 253-318). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 5. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 77 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lenz, H. (1886). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna Madagascars. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Zeitschrift für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 1(2): 379-408, pl. 10. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900g). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(4, 1899): 833-885, pl. 55-58. [published in April 1900, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1902b). Some new African spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 10(58): 315-330, pl. 2-3. doi:10.1080/00222930208678678 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908f). Arachniden aus Madagaskar, gesammelt von Herrn Walter Kaudern. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 26: 453-488. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913a). Arachnida. I. In: Schubotz, H. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig. 4(Zool. 2), 325-474. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7048 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916d). Arachnologica varia, I-IX. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A11): 112-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1868b). Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae. In: Virgin, C. A. (ed.) Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring Jorden. Uppsala, Zoologi, Arachnida, pp. 1-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-07 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d n/a