Geraesta

Geraesta is a genus of African crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[2]

Geraesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Geraesta
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
G. hirta
Simon, 1889
Species

6, see text

Species

As of September 2020 it contains six species, found in Africa:[1]

  • Geraesta ansieae Benjamin, 2015 – Rwanda
  • Geraesta congoensis (Lessert, 1943) – Ivory Coast, Congo, Botswana, South Africa
  • Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 (type) – Comoros, Madagascar
  • Geraesta lehtineni Benjamin, 2011 – Madagascar
  • Geraesta mkwawa Benjamin, 2011 – Tanzania
  • Geraesta octolobata (Simon, 1886) – Madagascar

In synonymy:

  • G. bilobata Simon, 1897 = Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Geraesta Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. Simon, E. (1889). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 223–236.

Further reading
  • Benjamin, S. P. (2015). "On the African crab spider genus Geraesta Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". African Invertebrates. 56 (2): 309–318. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0205. S2CID 83363501.
  • Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 1–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
  • Simon, E (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  • Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 1–374. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
  • Lessert, R. de (1943). "Araignées du Congo Belg (III)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 50: 305–338.


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