Taxon details


Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m
  • Last updated: 2025-03-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064335]
  • Distribution: New Zealand
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland (NZAC), New Zealand; m of Kaitawa insulare (Early & Gilbert, 1993)
Taxonomic references
Chiracanthium insulare Marples, 1956: 332, f. 2a-b (Dm; preoccupied by Vinson, 1863, see Cheiracanthium insulare [and by L. Koch, 1866, see C. insulare]) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027444].
Kaitawa insulare Forster, 1979: 59, f. 180, 256-257 (m, T from Cheiracanthium).
Kaitawa insulare Murphy, 2007: 589, f. 592-593 (m).
Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025: 37 (replacement name).
References

Forster, R. R. (1979). The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae. Otago Museum Bulletin 5: 1-95. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marples, B. J. (1956). Spiders from the Three Kings Islands. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 4: 329-342. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature - III: replacement names for three primary homonyms (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 20(1): 37-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2025 n/a
2025-03-13 New species inserted Sherwood, 2025 n/a