World Spider Catalog

Genus: Kaitawa Forster, 1979 | Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892

Kaitawa zegeli Sherwood, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064335

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Described:

Distribution: New Zealand

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland (NZAC), New Zealand m of Kaitawa insulare - (Early & Gilbert, 1993)

Taxonomic References

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)

References

Forster, R. R. (1979). The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae. Otago Museum Bulletin 5: 1-95. -- Show included taxa

Marples, B. J. (1956). Spiders from the Three Kings Islands. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 4: 329-342. -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society St Neots, Cambridgeshire 1, i-xii, 1-92; 2, i-ii, 93-605. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2025a). Studies on spider nomenclature - III: replacement names for three primary homonyms (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 20(1): 37-38. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.37 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2025a
2025-03-13	New species inserted	Sherwood, 2025a