Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila sumptuosa (Gerstaecker, 1873)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-06-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013983]
  • Distribution: East Africa, Yemen (Socotra)
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila amoenula Gerstäcker, 1873, (2337)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila sumptuosa Gerstäcker, 1873, (2379, 2334)
Taxonomic references
Nephila sumptuosa Gerstaecker, 1873: 501, pl. 18, f. 12 (Df).
Nephila amoenula Gerstaecker, 1873: 500 (Df).
Nephila bennetti O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898b: 387, pl. 31, f. 2 (Df).
Nephila sumptuosa Pocock, 1903g: 189, pl. 14, f. 2 (f, Dm).
Nephila sumptuosa Dahl, 1912a: 43, 69, 71 (Df).
Nephila sumptuosa Kuntner, Coddington & Schneider, 2009: 1453, f. 2A, 4G (mf).
Trichonephila sumptuosa Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
References

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

Gerstaecker, A. (1873). Arachnoidea. In: Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. Nach dem von Dr. O. Kersten während der v. d. Decken'schen Ost-Afrikanischen Expedition im Jahre 1862 und von C. Cooke auf der Insel Sansibar im Jahre 1864 gesammelten Material. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 461-503, pl. 18 (Araneae: pp. 473-503). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10149 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Schneider, J. M. (2009). Intersexual arms race? Genital coevolution in nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae). Evolution 63: 1451-1463. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898b). Arachnida. In: Dixey, F., Burr, M. & Pickard-Cambridge, O.: On a collection of insects and arachnids made by Mr E. N. Bennett in Socotra, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66(3): 387-391, pl. 31. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03159.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1903g). Arachnida. In: Forbes, H. O. (ed.) The natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, pp. 175-208, pl. 14, 26. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.34934 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