Caerostris | |
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Common bark spider ( Caerostris sexcuspidata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: |
Caerostris Thorell, 1868 [1] |
Synonyms [1] | |
Trichocharis Simon, 1895 [2] |
Caerostris, sometimes called bark spiders, [3] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868. [4] Most species are found in south eastern Africa and neighboring Madagascar. [1]
The genus Caerostris was erected in 1868 by Tamerlan Thorell with the type species being Epeira mitralis Vinson, 1863, which Thorell transferred to Caerostris mitralis. [1] [4] Up to 2009, only 11 species had been described. A further species, C. darwini, was described in 2010, [5] and six more species in 2015. [3] [1] Two of the "species", C. sexcuspidata and C. sumatrana, will probably need to be divided further to produce genetically uniform species. [3]
A molecular phylogenetic study of 12 of the species of Caerostris produced the phylogenetic tree shown below, showing that the African and Madagascan species form a monophyletic group. [3]
African and Madagascan species |
As of April 2019 [update] it contains eighteen species: [1]
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Caerostris | |
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Common bark spider ( Caerostris sexcuspidata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: |
Caerostris Thorell, 1868 [1] |
Synonyms [1] | |
Trichocharis Simon, 1895 [2] |
Caerostris, sometimes called bark spiders, [3] is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868. [4] Most species are found in south eastern Africa and neighboring Madagascar. [1]
The genus Caerostris was erected in 1868 by Tamerlan Thorell with the type species being Epeira mitralis Vinson, 1863, which Thorell transferred to Caerostris mitralis. [1] [4] Up to 2009, only 11 species had been described. A further species, C. darwini, was described in 2010, [5] and six more species in 2015. [3] [1] Two of the "species", C. sexcuspidata and C. sumatrana, will probably need to be divided further to produce genetically uniform species. [3]
A molecular phylogenetic study of 12 of the species of Caerostris produced the phylogenetic tree shown below, showing that the African and Madagascan species form a monophyletic group. [3]
African and Madagascan species |
As of April 2019 [update] it contains eighteen species: [1]
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