Taxon details


Argiope argentata (Fabricius, 1775)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-04-03
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015349]
  • Distribution: USA to Chile, Argentina
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  • Holotype: ; Aranea argentata Fabricius, 1775 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
Taxonomic references
Aranea argentata Fabricius, 1775: 433 (D).
Aranea mammeata De Geer, 1778: 318, pl. 39, f. 5 (D).
Aranea mammata Olivier, 1789: 202.
Aranea argentata Olivier, 1789: 234.
Epeira mammata Walckenaer, 1805: 56.
Argyopes argentatus C. L. Koch, 1838: 38, f. 360 (Df).
Argyopes fenestrinus C. L. Koch, 1838: 39, f. 361 (Df).
Epeira argentata Walckenaer, 1841: 115, pl. 18, f. 3 (f).
Epeira amictoria Walckenaer, 1841: 119 (Df).
Plectana sloanii Walckenaer, 1841: 200 (Df).
Epeira gracilis Keyserling, 1865: 826, pl. 19, f. 29-30 (Dm; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1805, see Micrathena gracilis).
Argiope carinata L. Koch, 1871: 29, pl. 2, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060797].
Argyopes maronicus Taczanowski, 1873: 261 (Df).
Argyopes subtilis Taczanowski, 1873: 261 (Df).
Acrosoma sloanii Butler, 1873b: 428.
Argyopes hirtus Taczanowski, 1879: 103, pl. 1, f. 23 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060811].
Epeira gracilis Keyserling, 1893: 235, pl. 11, f. 175 (m).
Argiope argentata McCook, 1894: 220, pl. 16, f. 1-2 (mf).
Argiope argentata Simon, 1895a: 764, f. 840 (f).
Argiope waughi Simon, 1896e: 105 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060850].
Argiope argentata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903a: 450, pl. 42, f. 25-26 (mf).
Araneus gracilis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 294.
Micrathena sloanei Petrunkevitch, 1911: 378.
Gea panamensis Chamberlin, 1917: 243, pl. 19, f. 8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060829].
Argiope argentata Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 241, f. 90-92 (mf).
Argiope argyrea Badcock, 1932: 19, f. 13 (Df).
Argiope cuyunii Hingston, 1932: 373 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060802].
Argiope filiargentata Hingston, 1932: 372 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060805].
Argiope filinfracta Hingston, 1932: 373 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060806].
Micrathena sloani Mello-Leitão, 1932a: 77.
Argiope argentata Bryant, 1940: 333 (S of Gea panamensis).
Singa gracilis Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 259 (T from Araneus).
Aranea gracilenta Roewer, 1942a: 843 (replacement name for Epeira gracilis) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060808].
Argiope indistincta Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 328, f. 12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060812].
Argiope argentata Abalos & Báez, 1963: 201, f. 12-15, 26-27 (mf).
Argiope hirta Archer, 1963: 18 (S of Argiope waughi).
Argiope argentata Abalos, 1967: 273, f. 12G-H, J (f).
Argiope argentata Levi, 1968a: 345, f. 42, 73, 112-136 (mf, S of Argiope cuyunii, A. filiargentata, A. filinfracta, A. hirta, A. indistincta and A. maronica, S of A. submaronica rejected by Jäger, 2012c: 298, see Argiope submaronica).
Argiope argentata Levi, 1983: 251 (S of Argiope carinata).
Argiope argentata Levi, 1991a: 177 (S of Argiope gracilenta and A. gracilis Keyserling).
Argiope argentata Lopez, 1993: 12, f. 12-13 (m).
Argiope argentata Agnarsson, 2004: 607, f. 92A (m).
Argiope argentata Levi, 2004: 58, f. 16-17, 36-45 (mf).
Argiope argentata Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 176, f. 17A (m).
Argiope argentata Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 846, f. 133B, 137A, C, E, 140A, F (mf).
Argiope argentata Taucare-Ríos, 2012a: 43, f. 1-3 (mf).
Argiope argentata Jäger, 2012c: 296, f. 73-79 (mf).
Argiope argentata Agnarsson et al., 2016: 35, f. 4j-l, 4o-p (mf).
Argiope argentata Benavides & Hormiga, 2020: 159, f. 13A, 18E (mf).
References

Abalos, J. W. & Báez, E. C. (1963). On spermatic transmission in spiders. Psyche, Cambridge 70(4): 197-207. doi:10.1155/1963/93732 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Abalos, J. W. (1967). La transferencia espermática en las arácnidos. Revistas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (2) 9: 251-278. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Agnarsson, I., LeQuier, S. M., Kuntner, M., Cheng, R. C., Coddington, J. A. & Binford, G. (2016). Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. ZooKeys 625: 25-44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.625.8729 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2011a). Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(4): 713-879. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00692.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1963). Catalogo de las arañas chilenas de las families de la division Metarachnae. Publicaciones Ocasionales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago 1: 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benavides, L. R. & Hormiga, G. (2020). A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144-191. doi:10.1071/IS19032 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1873b). A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 420-429. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00505.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

De Geer, C. (1778). Des araignées. In: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Tome septième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 176-324, pl. 11-19, 38-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Kortensche Buchhandlung, Flensburg & Leipzig], 832 pp. (Araneae, pp. 431-441). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.36510 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hingston, R. W. G. (1932). A naturalist in the Guiana forest. London, pp. 1-384 (Araneae, 363-377). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2012c). A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 272-331, 358-362. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1865). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 799-856, pl. 18-21. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1838). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Vierter Band, pp. 109-144, pl. 139-144 (f. 319-339); Fünfter Band, pp. 1-124, pl. 145-174 (f. 340-417). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1871). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 1-2]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1-104, pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24(2): 147-217. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1968a). The spider genera Gea and Argiope in America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 319-352. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1983). The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(5): 247-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2004). Comments and new records for the American genera Gea and Argiope with the description of new species (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158: 47-65. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lopez, A. (1993). Les araignées de la Guadeloupe: Genres Metepeira, Cyclosa et Argiope (Araneidae). Bulletin de la Societé des Sciences Naturelles, Venette-Compiègne 77: 9-16. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932a). Notas sobre ao Micratheneas do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 73-97. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941b). Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 233-300. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 3: 311-393. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1903a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 425-464. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1896e). Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier mémoire. Actes de la Société Scientifique du Chilie 6: 63-70, CIV-CVII. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1873). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 113-150, 261-286. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1872] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1879). Les aranéides du Pérou central (suite). Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 15(1): 102-136, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taucare-Ríos, A. O. (2012a). Notas acerca de la ecología de Argiope argentata (Fabricius, 1775) (Araneidae) en Chile. Boletín de Biodiversidad de Chile 7: 42-47. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2020-04-03 New taxonomic reference entry Benavides & Hormiga, 2020 n/a
2016-10-27 New taxonomic reference entry Agnarsson et al., 2016 n/a
2015-11-05 Species distribution update Corronca & Rodríguez Artigas, 2015 n/a (Old value)