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Caerostris

Gregorič, Matjaž;Yu, Kuang-Ping;Velez, Winny Rojas;Garb, Jessica E.

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Caerostris

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Also known as Bark spiders

thumb|left|Front view of C. sexcuspidata

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. 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

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • 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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