Taxon details


Trichonephila senegalensis (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013974]
  • Distribution: West Africa to Ethiopia
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Nephila senegalensis calabarensis Strand, 1908, 2 f (4135-119); 4 f (4136-119)
Taxonomic references
Epeira senegalensis Walckenaer, 1841: 94 (Df).
Epeira aubryi Lucas, 1858: 412 (36) (Df).
Epeira armillipes Doumerc, 1864: 231, pl. 5, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila grayii Blackwall, 1865a: 96 (Df).
Nephila aubryi Brito Capello, 1866: 85, pl. 2, f. 3 (Df).
Nephila senegalensis Simon, 1886g: 371 (Dm).
Nephila senegalensis calabarensis Strand, 1908c: 2 (Df).
Nephila senegalensis Dahl, 1912a: 43, 69.
Nephila senegalensis Berland, 1936: 84, f. 30 (m).
Nephila senegalensis Clausen, 1987: 147, f. 1 (m).
Nephila senegalensis Reiche, 1992: 10, f. 3 (m).
Nephila senegalensis Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 166, f. 7F-H (m).
Trichonephila senegalensis Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
References

Berland, L. (1936). Mission de M. A. Chevalier aux iles du Cap Vert (1934). 1. Araignées. Revue Française d'Entomologie 3: 67-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1865a). Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(92): 80-101. doi:10.1080/00222936508679383 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brito Capello, F. de (1866). Especies novas ou pouco conhecidas d'arachnidios d'Africa occidental. Journal of the Scientific Academy of Science Lisboa 1: 79-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Clausen, I. H. S. (1987). On the biology and behaviour of Nephila senegalensis senegalensis (Walckenaer, 1837). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 147-150. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Doumerc, A. (1864). Description de deux aranéides des genres Thomise et Epeire du Sénégal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 4: 229-232. 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

Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C. A., Cheng, R. C., Gregorič, M., Lupse, N., Lokovsek, T., Lemmon, E. M., Lemmon, A. R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy082 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11206 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reiche, W. (1992). Beitrag zur Ethologie von Nephila senegalensis (Walckenaer) (Arachnida: Aranea [sic]: Araneidae). Arachnologischer Anzeiger 3(10): 10-13. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908c). Diagnosen neuer aussereuropäischer Argiopiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 1-4. 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

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Kuntner et al., 2019 n/a
2019-06-15 Species transferred to new genus Kuntner et al., 2019 Species transferred from Nephila to Trichonephila