Taxon details
Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-09-17
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013943]
- Distribution: USA to Argentina. Introduced to São Tomé and Príncipe
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003423) of Nephila thomensis Benoit, 1963
- Holotype: ; Aranea longimana Fabricius, 1781 - type material probably lost or destroyed (Zimsen, 1964)
- Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1f (A0003423), 3f (A0003424) of Nephila thomensis Benoit, 1963
Aranea spinimobilis Linnaeus, 1767: 1034 (D).
Aranea clavipes Fabricius, 1775: 437.
Aranea clavipes Olivier, 1789: 201.
Epeira clavipes Hahn, 1821: 2, pl. 4, f. a-c (mf).
Epeira clavipes Hahn, 1833a: 118, f. 89 (mf).
Nephila plumipes C. L. Koch, 1839a: 138, f. 529 (f, misidentified).
Epeira plumipes Walckenaer, 1841: 99.
Nephila clavipes Taczanowski, 1873: 146.
Nephila wilderi McCook, 1894: 251, pl. 7, f. 1-2, pl. 23, f. 6-7 (Dmf).
Nephila wistariana McCook, 1894: 252, 255, pl. 23, f. 2-3, pl. 24, f. 1 (Dmf).
Nephila concolor McCook, 1894: 256, pl. 23, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila clavipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901b: 325, pl. 7, f. 1-4 (mf).
Nephila clavipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 448, pl. 42, f. 23-24 (f).
Nephila clavipes Dahl, 1912a: 46, 73, 75.
Nephila clavipes Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 247, f. 101-102 (mf).
Nephila clavipes Franganillo, 1931b: 220, f. 12-14 (m).
Nephila clavipes Franganillo, 1936c: 96, f. 48-49 (m).
Nephila clavipes Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 40 (S of Nephila chacoensis and N. dubia; rejected by Levi & Eickstedt, 1989: 46, see Trichonephila sexpunctata).
Nephila clavipes Archer, 1958: 2 (restricts nominate subspecies to Cuba and Hispaniola).
Nephila thomensis Benoit, 1963a: 371, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060759].
Nephila clavipes Wiehle, 1967b: 195, f. 49 (f).
Nephila madagascariensis Wiehle, 1967b: 195, f. 47 (m; misidentified per Schult, Preik & Kirschner, 2021: 173).
Nephila clavipes Levi, 1980a: 17, f. 23-43 (mf, S of Nephila thomensis; Levi, 1980a: 22, apparently considered all described subspecies of this species, and the other described Neotropical taxa, as identical, but did not formally synonymize them).
Nephila clavipes Heimer, 1982: 44, f. 13 (m).
Nephila clavipes Schult & Sellenschlo, 1983: 222, f. 1-3, 7-10 (mf).
Nephila clavipes Schult, 1983b: 156, f. 1-3 (m).
Nephila clavipes Roth, 1985: B6-6, f. 18, 67 (m).
Nephila clavipes Wunderlich, 1986: 79, f. 160-162 (m; erroneously claims this as the only Neotropical species listed in Roewer, but shows that more than one species is probably involved).
Nephila clavipes Levi & Eickstedt, 1989: 45, f. 1-4 (mf).
Nephila clavipes Higgins, 1989: 748, f. 1-4 (mf).
Nephila clavipes Coddington, 1990: 17, f. 52 (m).
Nephila clavipes Nentwig, 1993: 122, f. 138a-b (m).
Nephila clavipes Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington, 1995: 323, f. 5G-I, 10A-C (m).
Nephila clavipes Schult, 2004: 113, pl. 3A-F (m).
Nephila clavipes Ramos et al., 2005: 1993, f. 3B-C (mf).
Trichonephila clavipes Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
Nephila clavipes Schult, Preik & Kirschner, 2021: 173, f. 1a-c (m).
Trichonephila clavipes Cubas-Rodríguez & Brescovit, 2024b: 194, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3A-C (mf).
Archer, A. F. (1958). Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 4. American Museum Novitates 1922: 1-21. 
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Benoit, P. L. G. (1963a). Araneidae-Nephilinae africains du Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (Araneae). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 2: 367-372. -- Show included taxa
Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. -- Show included taxa
Cubas-Rodríguez, A. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2024b). Distribution of Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767) (Araneae: Araneidae) in Honduras. Revista Chilena de Entomología 50(2): 193-199. doi:10.35249/rche.50.2.24.08 -- 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
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 -- Show included taxa
Franganillo B., P. (1931b). Excursiones arachnológicas, durante el mes de agosto de 1930. Revista Belen 1931(26): 219-224. -- Show included taxa
Franganillo B., P. (1936c). Los arácnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp. -- Show included taxa
Hahn, C. W. (1821). Monographie der Spinnen. Lechner, Nürnberg, Heft 2, pp. 1-2, 4 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122225 -- Show included taxa
Hahn, C. W. (1833a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 77-129, pl. 19-36 (f. 57-95); Zweiter Band, pp. 1-16, pl. 37-47 (f. 96-105). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. (1982). Interne Arretierungsmechanismen an der Kopulationsorganen männlicher Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Araneoidea. Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 45: 35-64. -- Show included taxa
Higgins, L. E. (1989). Effect of insemination on the morphology of the internal female genitalia of the spider Nephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 82(6): 748-753. doi:10.1093/aesa/82.6.748 -- 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 -- 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
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 -- 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
Levi, H. W. & Eickstedt, V. R. D. von (1989). The Nephilinae spiders of the neotropics. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 51: 43-56. -- Show included taxa
Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio duodecima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae [= Stockholm], 533-1327 (Araneae, pp. 1030-1037). -- 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
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946b). Arañas del Paraguay. Notas del Museo de la Plata 11(Zool. 91): 17-50. -- Show included taxa
Nentwig, W. (1993). Spiders of Panama: biogeography, investigation, phenology, check list, key and bibliography of a tropical spider fauna. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 274 pp. -- 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 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901b). On a collection of spiders from the Bahama Islands made by J. L. Bonhote, Esq., with characters of a new genus and species of Mygalomorphae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 7(40): 322-332. doi:10.1080/00222930108678478 -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Ramos, M., Coddington, J. A., Christenson, T. E. & Irschick, D. J. (2005). Have male and female genitalia coevolved? A phylogenetic analysis of genitalic morphology and sexual size dimorphism in web-building spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). Evolution 59: 1989-1999. -- Show included taxa
Roth, V. D. (1985). Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville. -- Show included taxa
Schult, J. (1983b). Simple bulbs in male spiders - primitive or derived? (Arachnida: Araneae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 155-160. -- Show included taxa
Schult, J. & Sellenschlo, U. (1983). Morphologie und Funktion der Genitalstrukturen bei Nephila (Arach., Aran., Araneidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 80: 221-230. -- Show included taxa
Schult, J. (2004). Morphologische Merkmale als Zeichen. In: Schult, J. (ed.) Biosemiotik – praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen für die Einzelwissenschaften. VWB, Berlin, pp. 101-119. -- Show included taxa
Schult, J., Preik, O. & Kirschner, S. (2021). The importance of biosemiotics for morphology. Biosemiotics 14(1): 167-179. doi:10.1007/s12304-020-09399-4 -- 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] -- 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
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-01 | New taxonomic reference entry | Cubas-Rodríguez & Brescovit, 2024b | n/a |
| 2021-06-10 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2021-06-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Schult, Preik & Kirschner, 2021 | n/a |
| 2020-01-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Schult, 2004 | n/a |
| 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 |