Taxon details

Family: Agelenidae / Genus: Mistaria

Mistaria nairobii (Caporiacco, 1949)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-31
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020874]
  • Distribution: Central, East Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; m (025) (Kioko et al., 2018)
  • Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1f (026) (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Paralectotype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MSNVR/MCSN), Italy; 1m 1f (Di Caporiacco 15) (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)
Taxonomic references
Agelena leucopyga nairobii Caporiacco, 1949a: 329, f. 7 (Dmf).
Agelena nairobii Roewer, 1955b: 46, f. 16a-c (mf, elevated from subspecies).
Agelena nairobii Lehtinen, 1967: 249 (belongs probably to Mistaria).
Mistaria nairobii Kioko et al., 2018: 115, f. 2A-C, 3A-E (mf, T from Agelena).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kioko, G. M., Kioko, E. N., Li, S. Q. & Li, L. Q. (2018). On four species of the genus Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Kenya. African Invertebrates 59(2): 111-126. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.26617 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955b). Araneae Lycosaeformia I. (Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Pisauridae) mit Berücksichtigung aller Arten der äthiopischen Region. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 30: 1-420. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-08-07 New taxonomic reference entry Kioko et al., 2018 n/a
2018-08-07 Species transferred to new genus Kioko et al., 2018 Species transferred from Agelena to Mistaria