Gregorič, Matjaž;Yu, Kuang-Ping;Velez, Winny Rojas;Garb, Jessica E.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
Observations recorded2,000
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 102
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- USNM, ARC-PPRI, UNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CASC
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, South Africa, Zambia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Caerostris
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Caerostris
- topic's main category
- Category:Caerostris
- taxonomic type
- Caerostris mitralis
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Behavior
- Species
- References
thumb|left|Front view of C. sexcuspidata
Caerostris, sometimes called bark spiders, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868. Most species are found in south eastern Africa and neighboring Madagascar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caerostris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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