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Genus: Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 | Family: Corinnidae Karsch, 1880

Castianeira rubicunda Keyserling, 1879

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:025053

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Castianeira rubicunda Keyserling, 1879: 335, pl. 4, f. 28 (Dm) Original description

Castianeira memnonia Banks, 1929: 59, pl. 1, f. 11, pl. 3, f. 50, pl. 4, f. 64 (mf; misidentified per Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026: 41)

Castianeira memnonia Chickering, 1937c: 4, pl. 4, f. 44, pl. 5, f. 61 (m; misidentified per Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026: 41)

Castianeira memnonia Reiskind, 1969: 245, f. 178-181, 194-196 (mf; misidentified per Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026: 41)

Castianeira rubicunda Schmidt, 1997c: 6, f. 1-3 (f; misidentified per Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026: 41)

Castianeira rubicunda Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026: 45, f. 3A-H, 5A-B, 6E-F, 7A-D, 8A-F, 13A-F, 14A-F, 15A-J (mf)

References

Banks, N. (1929). Spiders from Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 69: 53-96. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1937c). The Clubionidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 56(1): 1-47. doi: 10.2307/3222720 -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1879). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 29: 293-350, pl. 4. -- Show included taxa

Reiskind, J. (1969). The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 138(5): 163-325. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1997c). Das Weibchen won Castianeira rubicunda Keyserling, 1879 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Arachnologisches Magazin 5(6): 6-10. -- Show included taxa

Silva-Junior, C. J. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2026). On the actual identity of the genus Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae): the type species and its relatives. Zootaxa 5763(1): 39-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5763.1.2 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-03-13	Species distribution update	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026	Old value
2026-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2026