World Spider Catalog

Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Kaitawa Forster, 1979 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02439

type Cheiracanthium insulare Marples, 1956 (preoccupied); gender neuter; replaced by Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025

Homonym replaced:

Kaitawa insulare (Marples, 1956) -- see Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025 Sherwood, 2025a

Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025 | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064335 TYPE SPECIES

Chiracanthium insulare Marples, 1956: 332, f. 2a-b (Dm; preoccupied by Vinson, 1863, see Cheiracanthium insulare [and by L. Koch, 1866, see C. insulare]) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027444] Original description

Kaitawa insulare Forster, 1979: 59, f. 180, 256-257 (m, T from Cheiracanthium)

Kaitawa insulare Murphy, 2007: 589, f. 592-593 (m)

Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025a: 37 (replacement name)