World Spider Catalog

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Geraesta Simon, 1889 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02673

type Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Geraesta bilobata Simon, 1897 = Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 (Benjamin, 2011: 16)

Geraesta ansieae Benjamin, 2015 | | Rwanda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047950

Geraesta ansieae Benjamin, 2015a: 311, f. 1-4 (Dm) Original description

Geraesta congoensis (Lessert, 1943) | | Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Botswana, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031131

Stephanopis congoensis Lessert, 1943: 333, f. 35-37 (Dmf) Original description

Geraesta congoensis Benjamin, 2015a: 313, f. 5-8, 12-15 (mf, T from Stephanopis)

Geraesta congoensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020u: 32, 31: 2 f., 32: 4 f. (mf)

Geraesta congoensis Dippenaar-Schoeman, Uys & Webb, 2025: 11, f. 1-16 (mf)

Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889 | | Comoros, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030413 TYPE SPECIES

Geraesta hirta Simon, 1889b: 225 (Dj) Original description

Geraesta hirta Simon, 1897a: 7, f. 3-4 (j)

Geraesta bilobata Simon, 1897a: 7, f. 5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030412]

Geraesta hirta Benjamin, 2011: 16, f. 7F, 39A-E, 40A-F, 41A-F (m, Df, S of Geraesta bilobata)

Geraesta hirta Ramírez, 2014: 223, f. 151A-B, 172F-G (mf)

Geraesta hirta Benjamin, 2015a: 313, f. 9-11, 16 (mf)

Geraesta hirta Machado & Teixeira, 2021: 299, f. 9d, 14g, 19c (m)

Geraesta lehtineni Benjamin, 2011 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044389

Geraesta lehtineni Benjamin, 2011: 16, f. 42AD, 43A-F (Dmf) Original description

Geraesta mkwawa Benjamin, 2011 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044390

Geraesta mkwawa Benjamin, 2011: 17, f. 6E-F, 44A-D, 45A-F, 46A-F (Dmf) Original description

Geraesta octolobata (Simon, 1886) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031155

Stephanopis octolobata Simon, 1886b: 170 (Df) Original description

Geraesta octolobata Benjamin, 2015a: 315, f. 17-26 (Dm, f, T from Stephanopis)