Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Clitaetra Simon, 1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01367 ]
N.B.: Clytaetra is an unjustified emendation; firstly transferred from the Tetragnathidae to the Nephilidae by Kuntner, 2006: 24; for the current familial placement see the note at the family.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-02-08
Described in
Simon, 1889b: 226 (type Clitaetra episinoides Simon, 1889; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
5accepted
Reference

Simon, E. (1889b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 223-236. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2024-02-08 Genus transferred to other family Hormiga et al., 2023 Clitaetra Simon, 1889 transferred to Araneidae
2023-08-08 Genus transferred to other family Kuntner et al., 2023 Clitaetra Simon, 1889 transferred to Nephilidae
2017-05-08 Genus transferred to other family Dimitrov et al., 2017 Clitaetra Simon, 1889 transferred to Araneidae