Cheiracanthium rupestre Herman, 1879

Rainer Breitling, Tobias Bauer, Arno Grabolle, Pierre Oger, Paolo Pantini, Johan Van Keer, Walter P. Pfliegler, Elke JantsCher & Jan Dolanský, 2016, East meets West: on the true identity of Cheiracanthium rupestre and Xysticus albomaculatus (AraChnida: Araneae: EutiChuridae, Thomisidae), Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52, pp. 38-49 : 47

Cheiracanthium rupestre Herman, 1879 nomen dubium

Chiracanthium rupestre Herman, 1879: 157 , 356, pl. 7, f. 158 (Description and illustration of female). [Holotype ♀ from HUNGARY: Majláth (Diósgyőr, Miskolc), considered lost]. Cheiracanthium macedonicum Drensky, 1921 ( Figs 1 a+b, 2a+b, 4, 5a+b, 6a+b)

Chiracanthium rupestre – Chyzer & Kulczyński 1897: 235, pl. 9, figs 42, 62, 78 (description of female, description and illustration of male; three ♀♀ examined, two of them by photographs, considered misidentified)

Chiracanthium macedoinica [sic, lapsus] Drensky, 1921: 49, 77, pl. 1, figs 12-14 (description and illustration of female). [Holotype ♀ from BULGARIA: Yakoruda, Drensky leg., examined].

Chiracanthium macedonica – Drensky 1929: 23 ( lapsus corrected)

Cheiracanthium mazedonica – Drensky 1936: 173 ( lapsus)

Cheiracanthium macedonicum – Roewer 1955: 480 (correction of gender ending required by ICZN Art. 31.2).

Chiracanthium macedonicum – Bonnet 1956: 1060

Cheiracanthium rupestre – Oltean 1973: 46, figs 1-2 (description and illustration of male; considered misidentified)

Cheiracanthium rupestre – Sterghiu 1985: 110, figs 33a-c (description and illustration of male; considered misidentified) Cheiracanthium striolatum Simon, 1878

Figures

Fig. 1: Illustration of the epigyne of a. C. rupestre in Herman’s original description; Herman 1879: Tab. VIIı fig. 158); b. of C. macedonicum in Drensky’s original description; Drensky 1921: Tab. Iı fig. 14) ı and C. of C. striolatum in Arachnides de France; Simon 1932: fig. 1361). The epigyne of C. rupestre is structurally quite different. In contrastı the epigynes of the other two taxa represent the extremes of a continuum in external appearanceı and both forms and their intermediates can be found within a single population.