Rank Genus | Family Araneidae Higher classification Orb-weaver spider Order Spider | |
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Similar Darwin's bark spider, Orb‑weaver spider, Arachnid, Arachnura, Louisiana pancake batfish | ||
Giant spider web darwin s bark spider caerostris darwini
Caerostris is a genus of spiders in the Araneidae family. They are sometimes called bark spiders. The genus Caerostris was created by the noted Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell (1830-1901) in 1868. Most species are found in south eastern Africa and neighbouring Madagascar.
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- Giant spider web darwin s bark spider caerostris darwini
- Darwin s bark spider caerostris darwini
- Taxonomy
- Species
- References
Darwin s bark spider caerostris darwini
Taxonomy
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. Up to 2009, only 11 species had been described. A further species, C. darwini, was described in 2010, and six more species in 2015. Two of the "species", C. sexcuspidata and C. sumatrana, will probably need to be divided further to produce genetically uniform species.
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.
Species
As of March 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:
