Taxon details


Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-03
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016218]
  • Distribution: USA to Brazil
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Pronarachne aries Mello-Leitão, 1937, (14041); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Haliger corniferus Mello-Leitão, 1943, (41746); 1 j (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Epeiroides fasciolata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 15, pl. 8, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016375].
Kaira altiventer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 56, pl. 8, f. 13 (Df).
Kaira altiventer Keyserling, 1892: 62, pl. 3, f. 48 (f).
Epeiroides fasciolata Keyserling, 1893: 309, pl. 16, f. 228 (m).
Caira spinosa Simon, 1897b: 478 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057758].
Aranea fasciolata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 519, pl. 51, f. 5 (m).
Kaira altiventer F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 522, pl. 51, f. 10 (f).
Araneus fasciolatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 291.
Pronarachne aries Mello-Leitão, 1937a: 9, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057755].
Haliger corniferus Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 180, f. 18 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054338].
Kaira altiventer Levi, 1977b: 218, f. 130-137 (f, Dm, S of Kaira spinosa and Pronarachne aries).
Mastophora fasciolata Levi, 1991a: 180 (T from Araneus).
Kaira altiventer Levi, 1993c: 213, f. 3-22 (mf, S of Haliger corniferus).
Kaira altiventer Levi, 2002: 533, f. 8, 10-12 (f).
Kaira altiventer Levi, 2003: 325 (S of Mastophora fasciolata).
References

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1977b). The orb-weaver genera Metepeira, Kaira and Aculepeira in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 185-238. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1993c). The orb-weaver genus Kaira (Araneae: Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology 21(3): 209-225. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2003). The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157(5): 309-382. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1937a). Aranhas novas ou raras. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 9: 1-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897b). Etudes arachnologiques. 27e mémoire (1). XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 65(3, 1896): 465-510, pl. 12-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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