Clitaetra
Clitaetra is a genus of spiders in a family Araneidae.[1] It was formerly placed in a separate family, Nephilidae. It occurs in Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka, hinting to a Gondwanan origin. a split between Clitaetra and related genera may be as old as 160 million years.[2]
| Clitaetra | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Nephilinae |
| Genus: | Clitaetra Simon, 1889[1] |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 6 species | |
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The smallest species (C. thisbe) reaches 3.5 mm in female length, a biggest species can be as long as one centimetre.
Name
The etymology of the genus name is unknown.[2]
Species
As of May 2017, a World Spider Catalog accepted a following species:[1]
- Clitaetra clathrata Simon, 1907 – West Africa
- Clitaetra episinoides Simon, 1889 – Comoro Is.
- Clitaetra irenae Kuntner, 2006 – South Africa
- Clitaetra perroti Simon, 1894 – Madagascar
- Clitaetra simoni Benoit, 1962 – Congo
- Clitaetra thisbe Simon, 1903 – Sri Lanka
References
- "Gen. Clitaetra Simon, 1889", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-05-12
- Kuntner, M. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of a Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae). Zoologica Scripta 35(1):19-62. PDF
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