Taxon details


Caerostris vicina (Blackwall, 1866)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015484]
  • Distribution: Central, eastern, southern Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Caerostris subsimata Strand, 1906
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Caerostris amanica Strand, 1907, (23253)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 3f (A0003398) of Caerostris simata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895
Taxonomic references
Eurysoma vicina Blackwall, 1866: 465 (Df).
Caerostris vinsonii Thorell, 1868b: 8 (Df).
Caerostris albiceps O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891b: 628, pl. 53, f. 8 (Df).
Caerostris simata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 46, pl. 2, f. 27 (Df).
Caerostris nodulosa Pocock, 1898g: 514, pl. 41, f. 7 (Dmf).
Caerostris turriger Pocock, 1900g: 837, pl. 57, f. 15 (Df; preoccupied by C. mitralis turrigera Thorell, 1868).
Caerostris albescens Pocock, 1900g: 856, pl. 57, f. 16 (Df).
Caerostris darlingi Pocock, 1902b: 327, f. D (Df).
Caerostris columnifer Pocock, 1902b: 328 (replacement name for C. turriger).
Caerostris albescens Simon, 1902b: 215, f. A-B.
Caerostris albescens flavicomis Simon, 1903e: 90 (Df).
Caerostris subsimata Strand, 1906h: 64 (Df).
Caerostris amanica Strand, 1907a: 536 (Df).
Caerostris amanica Strand, 1907n: 638 (Df).
Caerostris simata Strand, 1907n: 641.
Caerostris vinsoni Grasshoff, 1984: 746, f. 1-3, 6-7, 12, 22-25, 43-44 (mf, S).
Caerostris vicina Levi, 1996b: 93 (Tf from Paraplectana, Sm).
Caerostris vicina Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 48, 7 unnumbered f. (f).
References

Blackwall, J. (1866). A list of spiders captured in the south-east region of equatorial Africa, with descriptions of such species as appear to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18(108): 451-468. doi:10.1080/00222936608679683 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. & Lenz, H. (1895). Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 12(2): 27-51. 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

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

Levi, H. W. (1996b). The American orb weavers Hypognatha, Encyosaccus, Xylethrus, Gasteracantha, and Enacrosoma (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 89-157. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1891b). On some new species and two new genera of Araneida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 58(4, 1890): 620-629, pl. 53. [published in April 1891, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898g). On the scorpions, spiders and solpugas collected by Mr. C. Steuart Betton in British East Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(3): 497-524, pl. 41-42. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03172.x 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

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

Simon, E. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906h). Tropisch-afrikanische Spinnen des Kgl. Naturalienkabinetts in Stuttgart. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 62: 13-103. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. 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

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