Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Caerostris

Caerostris mitralis (Vinson, 1863)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-07-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015481]
  • Distribution: Tanzania, DR Congo, Mozambique, Madagascar
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Caerostris albopubescens Strand, 1906
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris petersii Karsch, 1878, (2853)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris rugosa Karsch, 1878, (2852)
Taxonomic references
Epeira mitralis Vinson, 1863: 230, 314, pl. 9, f. 2-4 (Df).
Caerostris rugosa Karsch, 1878a: 323, pl. 1, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061381].
Caerostris petersii Karsch, 1878a: 324, pl. 1, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061379].
Caerostris avernalis Butler, 1879a: 799, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061365].
Caerostris stygiana Butler, 1880: 731, pl. 58, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061384].
Caerostris paradoxa Butler, 1880: 732, pl. 57, f. 5 (f).
Caerostris retorta Butler, 1882: 101, pl. 6, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061380].
Caerostris petersi Simon, 1895a: 831, f. 874 (f).
Caerostris avernalis Simon, 1895a: 831, f. 880.
Caerostris mitralis Simon, 1895a: 834.
Caerostris paradoxa Workman, 1896: 25, pl. 25 (f).
Caerostris mitralis Simon, 1902b: 215, f. C.
Caerostris albopubescens Strand, 1906b: 688 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061363].
Caerostris mitralis Grasshoff, 1984: 743, f. 10, 13, 19-21, 45 (mf, S of Caerostris albopubescens, C. avernalis, C. petersi, C. retorta, C. rugosa and C. stygiana).
References

Butler, A. G. (1879a). Description of a remarkable new spider from Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 46(4, 1878): 799-800. [published in April 1879, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1878.tb08023.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1880). On Arachnida from the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47(4, 1879): 729-734, pl. 58. [published in April 1880, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02709.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1882). On some new species of the genus Caerostris from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 10(56): 100-106, pl. 6. doi:10.1080/00222938209459680 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

Karsch, F. (1878a). Übersicht der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Arachniden. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 314-338. 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

Simon, E. (1902b). Note sur le genre Caerostris. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 7(11): 214-215. doi:10.3406/bsef.1902.23086 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

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

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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