Taxon details
Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-01-06
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013960]
- Distribution: Pakistan, India to China, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); j (A0003434) of Meta ornata L. Koch, 1872
- Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003436) of Nephila tenuipes L. Koch, 1872
- Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; type material of Nephila maculata novae-guineae Strand, 1906 destroyed (Jäger, 1998b)
- Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; type material of Nephila submaculata Strand, 1906 destroyed (Jäger, 1998b)
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Aranea longipes Fabricius, 1781 - specimen "not to be found" (Zimsen, 1964)
- Holotype: ; Aranea maculata Fabricius, 1793 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
- Holotype: ; Aranea pilipes Fabricius, 1793 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
- Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Nephila maculata flavornata Merian, 1911, 1 f (NMB-ARAN-00604 s)
- Holotype: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB), Australia; f (W 2120) of Nephila maculata piscatorum (Davies & Gallon, 1986)
- Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (2566/18) of Nephila robusta (Sankaran et al., 2020)
- Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 2j (A0003435) of Nephila procera L. Koch, 1872
- Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 3j (A0003446) of Nephila sulphurosa L. Koch, 1872
- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila maculata lauterbachi F. Dahl, 1912, (25148–49)
Aranea maculata Fabricius, 1793: 424 (D, preoccupied by Olivier, 1789).
Aranea pilipes Fabricius, 1793: 425 (Df).
Aranea sebae Walckenaer, 1805: 55.
Epeira chrysogaster Walckenaer, 1805: 53 (D).
Nephila maculata Leach, 1815: 134, pl. 110 (f).
Nephila fuscipes C. L. Koch, 1839a: 136, f. 528 (Df).
Epeira chrysogaster Walckenaer, 1841: 92 (Df).
Epeira fuscipes Walckenaer, 1841: 97.
Epeira doreyana Walckenaer, 1841: 100 (Df).
Epeira caliginosa Walckenaer, 1841: 100 (Df).
Nephila ornata Adams, 1847: 291 (Df).
Epeira penicillum Doleschall, 1857: 413 (Df).
Epeira walckenaeri Doleschall, 1857: 413 (Df).
Epeira hasseltii Doleschall, 1859: 27, pl. 13, f. 5 (Df).
Epeira chrysogaster Doleschall, 1859: 27, pl. 14, f. 2, pl. 11, f. 2 (f).
Epeira walckenaeri Doleschall, 1859: pl. 1, f. 4, pl. 2, f. 4 (f).
Epeira harpyia Doleschall, 1859: 28, pl. 14, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila chrysogaster O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871d: 620, pl. 49, f. 3-4 (f, Dm).
Meta ornata L. Koch, 1872a: 134, pl. 11, f. 6 (j).
Nephila fuscipes L. Koch, 1872a: 156, pl. 13, f. 1 (f).
Nephila pecuniosa L. Koch, 1872a: 157, pl. 13, f. 2 (Df).
Nephila aurosa L. Koch, 1872a: 160, pl. 13, f. 4 (Df).
Nephila procera L. Koch, 1872a: 162, pl. 14, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila sulphurosa L. Koch, 1872a: 163, pl. 14, f. 2 (Df).
Nephila tenuipes L. Koch, 1872a: 165, pl. 13, f. 5 (Df).
Nephila walckenaeri Thorell, 1877b: 447.
Nephila maculata annulipes Thorell, 1881: 146 (Df).
Nephila maculata McCook, 1894: 254, pl. 23, f. 4 (f).
Nephila maculata Simon, 1894a: 755, f. 832-833 (mf).
Nephila maculata jalorensis Simon, 1901k: 58 (Dj).
Nephila maculata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 193, pl. 11, f. 208 (f).
Nephila submaculata Strand, 1906c: 30 (Df).
Nephila maculata novae-guineae Strand, 1906d: 261 (Df).
Nephila maculata flavornata Merian, 1911: 195 (Df).
Nephila maculata piscatorum Vis, 1911: 167 (Df).
Nephila pictithorax Kulczyński, 1911c: 469, pl. 20, f. 40 (Df).
Nephila maculata Dahl, 1912a: 35, 52.
Nephila maculata lauterbachi Dahl, 1912a: 53 (Df).
Nephila maculata hasselti Hogg, 1915a: 440.
Nephila maculata walckenaeri Hogg, 1915a: 441.
Nephila maculata Saito, 1959: 117, f. 140a-d (f).
Nephila maculata Chrysanthus, 1959: 197, f. 2, 11, 24 (f).
Nephila maculata Chrysanthus, 1960: 23, f. 3-4 (m).
Nephila robusta Tikader, 1962b: 566 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013972].
Nephila maculata Wiehle, 1967b: 195, f. 51 (f).
Nephila maculata Levi, 1980a: 17, f. 16-22 (mf).
Nephila maculata Tikader, 1982a: 97, f. 187-190 (f).
Nephila robusta Tikader, 1982a: 100, f. 191-194 (f).
Nephila maculata Wunderlich, 1986: 197, f. 163 (m).
Nephila maculata Song, 1987: 174, f. 134 (mf).
Nephila pilipes Barrion et al., 1988b: 248, f. 1, 2a-e (f).
Nephila maculata Hu & Wu, 1989: 106, f. 81.1-3 (mf).
Nephila maculata Chikuni, 1989b: 80, f. 52 (mf).
Nephila maculata Feng, 1990: 97, f. 72.1-5 (mf).
Nephila maculata Chen & Zhang, 1991: 111, f. 105.1-4 (mf).
Nephila maculata Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 560, f. 346a-c, 347a-e (mf).
Nephila pilipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 217, f. 124Q-R, 125E (mf).
Nephila pilipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 168, f. 98A-C (mf).
Nephila pilipes Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 82, f. 34A-F, 35A-C, pl. VA-D (mf).
Nephila maculata Kim, 2006: 203, f. 1a-c, 2a-e (mf).
Nephila maculata Gajbe, 2007: 510, f. 266-268 (f).
Nephila pilipes Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 422, f. 1-2, 4-5, 19-31 (mf, S).
Nephila pilipes Tanikawa, 2007c: 94, f. 310-315, 766-767 (mf).
Nephila pilipes Tanikawa, 2009: 404, f. 3-4 (mf).
Nephila pilipes Sen et al., 2015: 104, f. 607-611, pl. 21 (f).
Nephila pilipes Sankaran et al., 2020: 592, f. 1A-D, 2A-C,E-F, 3A-H (mf, Sf of Nephila robusta).
Nephila pilipes Ochi & Shinta, 2021: 108, f. 2-3 (m).
Nephila pilipes Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024a: 426, f. 10A-G, 11A-E, 12A-D (mf).
Adams, A. (1847). Notes on the habits of certain exotic spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(134): 289-297. doi:10.1080/037454809496053 
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Barrion, A. A., Casal, C. V., Taylo, L. D. & Amalin, D. M. (1988b). Two orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines causing araneidism. Philippine Journal of Science 116: 245-254. -- Show included taxa
Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. -- Show included taxa
Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). Japanische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 93-422. -- Show included taxa
Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. -- Show included taxa
Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1959). Spiders from south New Guinea II. Nova Guinea N.S. 10: 197-206. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1960). Spiders from south New Guinea III. Nova Guinea, Zoology 3: 23-42. -- Show included taxa
Dahl, F. (1912a). Seidenspinne und Spinneseide. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6(1): 1-90. doi:10.1002/mmnz.19120060101 -- Show included taxa
Doleschall, L. (1857). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 13: 399-434, pl. 1-2. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66068 -- Show included taxa
Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. -- Show included taxa
Fabricius, J. C. (1781). Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphos in adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburgi and Kilonii, 1, 1-552 (Araneae, pp. 536-549). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11658 -- Show included taxa
Fabricius, J. C. (1793). Entomologiae systematica emendata et aucta, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. II. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae [= Copenhagen], 519 pp. [Aranea pp. 407-428]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122153 -- Show included taxa
Feng, Z. Q. (1990). Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp. -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa
Harvey, M. S., Austin, A. D. & Adams, M. (2007). The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in the Australasian region. Invertebrate Systematics 21(5): 407-451. doi:10.1071/IS05016 -- Show included taxa
Hogg, H. R. (1915a). Report on the spiders collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 20: 425-484. -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2024a). Orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae, Nephilidae) from the Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan with comments on morphological variation in Neoscona mukerjei Tikader, 1980 and emasculation in Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793). Lahore Garrison University Journal of Life Sciences 7(4, 2023): 407-432. [publ. Jan. 7, 2024] doi:10.54692/lgujls.2023.0704305 -- Show included taxa
Kim, J. P. (2006). Redescription of Nephila maculata (Fabricius), 1793 from Cambodia (Araneae, Nephilidae). Korean Arachnology 22: 203-209. -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1911c). Spinnen aus Nord-Neu-Guinea. In: Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903 sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann. Nova Guinea 5(Zoologie, Lief. 4): 423-518, pl. 19-20. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10923 -- Show included taxa
Leach, W. E. (1815). Zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new and interesting animals. London, 2, 1-154 (Araneae, pp. 131-134). -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1980a). The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 1-74. -- Show included taxa
McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 -- Show included taxa
Merian, P. (1911). Die Spinnenfauna von Celebes. Beiträge zur Tiergeographie im Indoaustralischen Archipel. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 31: 165-354. -- Show included taxa
Ochi, O. & Shinta, R. (2021). [Nephila pilipes and Dictis striatipes in Kimotsuki-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture]. Kishidaia 118: 108-109. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1871d). Notes on some Arachnida collected by Cuthbert Collingwood, Esq., M. D., during rambles in the China Sea, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 39(2): 617-622, pl. 49. -- Show included taxa
Saitō, S. (1959). The Spider Book Illustrated in Colours. Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 194 pp. -- Show included taxa
Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020). On a new synonymy in the spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 (Araneidae, Nephilinae) from India with supplementary notes on colour polymorphism in the genus. Zootaxa 4786(4): 592-596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.4.11 -- Show included taxa
Sen, S., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News 20: 1-339. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1901k). On the Arachnida collected during the Skeat expedition to the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71(1): 45-84. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08164.x -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X. (1987). Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae). Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing, 376 pp. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (2001). The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 510 pp. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1906c). Über einige Vogelspinnen und afrikanische Spinnen des naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 59: 1-45. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1906d). Sumatra und Neu-Guinea Spinnen des naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 59: 257-278. -- Show included taxa
Tanikawa, A. (2007c). An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp. -- Show included taxa
Tanikawa, A. (2009). Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1877b). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 10: 341-637. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. (1982a). Part 1. Family Araneidae (= Argiopidae). Typical orb-weavers. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-293. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. (1962b). Studies on some Indian spiders (Araneae: Arachnida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44(300): 561-584. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1962.tb01624.x -- Show included taxa
Vis, C. W. de (1911). A fisherman's spider. Annals of the Queensland Museum 10: 167-168. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta, – eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48(3): 183-196. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden, 283 pp. -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X. & Zhang, J. X. (2003). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Science Press, Beijing, 418 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024a | n/a |
| 2024-01-06 | Species distribution update | Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024a | n/a (Old value) |
| 2021-06-10 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Trichonephila fenestrata (Thorell, 1859) | |
| 2021-05-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Ochi & Shinta, 2021 | n/a |
| 2020-06-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sankaran et al., 2020 | n/a |
| 2020-06-04 | Species synonymy | Sankaran et al., 2020 | Nephila robusta synonymized with Nephila pilipes |
| 2016-09-17 | Species distribution update | Logunov & Jäger, 2015 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2015-12-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sen et al., 2015 | n/a |