Taxon details
Caerostris vicina (Blackwall, 1866)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-07-05
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015484]
- Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa
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- 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
Caerostris vinsonii Thorell, 1868b: 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061388].
Caerostris albiceps O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891b: 628, pl. 53, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061362].
Caerostris simata Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 46, pl. 2, f. 27 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061383].
Caerostris nodulosa Pocock, 1898g: 514, pl. 41, f. 7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061394].
Caerostris turriger Pocock, 1900g: 857, pl. 57, f. 15 (Df; preoccupied by Thorell, 1868, see Caerostris sexcuspidata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061387].
Caerostris albescens Pocock, 1900g: 856, pl. 57, f. 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061360].
Caerostris darlingi Pocock, 1902b: 327, f. D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061369].
Caerostris columnifer Pocock, 1902b: 328 (replacement name for C. turriger) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061368].
Caerostris albescens Simon, 1902b: 215, f. A-B.
Caerostris albescens flavicomis Simon, 1903e: 90 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061361].
Caerostris subsimata Strand, 1906h: 64 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061385].
Caerostris amanica Strand, 1907a: 536 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061364].
Caerostris amanica Strand, 1907n: 638 (f).
Caerostris simata Strand, 1907n: 641 (S of Caerostris nodulosa).
Paraplectana vicina Roewer, 1942a: 898.
Caerostris vinsoni Grasshoff, 1984: 746, f. 1-3, 6-7, 12, 22-25, 43-44 (mf, S of Caerostris albescens, C. albescens flavicomis, C. albiceps, C. amanica, C. columnifer, C. darlingi, C. simata, C. subsimata and C. turriger).
Caerostris vicina Levi, 1996b: 93 (T from Paraplectana, S of Caerostris vinsoni).
Caerostris vicina Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 48, 7 unnumbered f. (f).
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 
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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. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Grasshoff, M. (1984). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Caerostris (Arachnida: Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 98(4): 725-765. -- 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. -- 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] -- 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 -- 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] -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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 |