Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Nephilingis

Nephilingis cruentata (Fabricius, 1775)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-18
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013990]
  • Distribution: Tropical Africa. Introduced to Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indian Ocean Islands
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephilengys genualis Gerstäcker, 1873 (2340)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephilengys borbonica mossambicensis Karsch, 1878, (2847)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; Aranea cruentata Fabricius, 1775, specimen "not to be found" (Zimsen, 1964)
Taxonomic references
Aranea cruentata Fabricius, 1775: 439 (Df).
Epeira diadela Walckenaer, 1841: 54 (Df).
Epeira brasiliensis Walckenaer, 1841: 101 (Df).
Epeira azzara Walckenaer, 1841: 102 (Df).
Nephilengys genualis Gerstaecker, 1873: 503 (Df).
Nephila borbonica mossambicensis Karsch, 1878a: 319, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df).
Nephila brasiliensis Bertkau, 1880a: 83, pl. 2, f. 29 (f).
Nephilengys cruentata Simon, 1887a: 271.
Araneus diadelus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 289.
Nephilengys cruentata Dahl, 1912a: 47, 77, 79 (Dm).
Nephila cruentata chiloangensis Strand, 1918: 109 (Df).
Nephilengys cruentata Lessert, 1936: 244, f. 39 (m).
Nephilengys cruentata Schmidt & Jocqué, 1986: 209, f. 10-11 (mf).
Nephilengys cruentata Levi & Eickstedt, 1989: 48, f. 16-25 (mf, S).
Nephilengys cruentata Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington, 1995: 323, f. 5E-F, 12A-E (m).
Nephilengys cruentata Kuntner, 2007: 109, f. 1A-H, 2A-G, 3A-D, 4A-C, 5A-D, 6A-B, 7A-D, 8A-D, 9A-D, 10A-B (mf).
Nephilengys cruentata Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 167, f. 8A-C, K-M (mf).
Nephilengys cruentata Kuntner, Coddington & Schneider, 2009: 1453, f. 2D (f).
Nephilingis cruentata Kuntner et al., 2013: Appendix A (T from Nephilengys).
Nephilingis cruentata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 23, p. 22: 3 f., p. 23: 3 f. (f habitus).
References

Bertkau, P. (1880a). Verzeichniss der von Prof. Ed. van Beneden auf seiner im Auftrage der Belgischen Regierung unternommenen wissenschaftlichen Reise nach Brasilien und La Plata i. J. 1872-73 gesammelten Arachniden. Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Étrangers de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 43: 1-120. 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

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 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

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

Hormiga, G., Eberhard, W. G. & Coddington, J. A. (1995). Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 43(4): 313-364. doi:10.1071/ZO9950313 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1878a). Übersicht der von Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Arachniden. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878: 314-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M. (2007). A monograph of Nephilengys, the pantropical 'hermit spiders' (Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae). Systematic Entomology 32(1): 95-135. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00348.x 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., 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., Arnedo, M. A., Trontelj, P., Lokovsek, T. & Agnarsson, I. (2013). A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: evolutionary history of a model lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 961-979. [+Appendix A] doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.008 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Eickstedt, V. R. D. von (1989). The Nephilinae spiders of the neotropics. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 51: 43-56. 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

Schmidt, G. & Jocqué, R. (1986). Die Nephilinae der Comoren (Araneae, Araneidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 100: 205-212. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887a). Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7: 261-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1918). Zur Kenntnis japanischer Spinnen, I und II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82(A11, 1916): 73-113, pl. 1-2. 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
2023-01-18 Species distribution update Kuntner, 2007 n/a (Old value)
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a
2022-06-08 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a (Old value)
2017-04-16 New taxonomic reference entry Kuntner et al., 2013 n/a