Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila edulis (Labillardière, 1799)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013949]
  • Distribution: Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Nephila imperatrix L. Koch, 1872 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1m 2f (A0003447), 1m 2f 1j (A0003449) of Nephila imperatrix L. Koch, 1872
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1m 2f (A0003447), 1m 2f 1j (A0003449) of Nephila imperatrix L. Koch, 1872
Taxonomic references
Aranea edulis Labillardière, 1799: 240, pl. 12, f. 4-6 (Df).
Epeira edulis Walckenaer, 1841: 93.
Nephila imperatrix L. Koch, 1872a: 159, pl. 13, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058958].
Nephila edulis Thorell, 1875e: 131.
Nephila eremiana Hogg, 1896: 318, pl. 24, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058959].
Meta aerea Hogg, 1896: 320, pl. 24, f. 4-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013866].
Nephila picta Rainbow, 1896a: 321, pl. 19, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058957].
Nephila meridionalis Hogg, 1910b: 59, pl. 18, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013958].
Nephila adelaidensis Hogg, 1910b: 61, pl. 18, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013936].
Nephila edulis Dahl, 1912a: 35, 70 (S of Nephila eremiana and N. imperatrix).
Nephila meridionalis hermitis Hogg, 1914b: 72, pl. 4, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013959].
Nephila edulis Berland, 1931b: 670, f. 16-19 (f, Dm).
Nephila edulis Berland, 1932b: 278, f. 425 (m).
Nephila edulis Uhl & Vollrath, 1998: 39, f. 1-4 (mf).
Nephila edulis Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 439, f. 7, 12-18, 74-86 (mf, S of Nephila adelaidensis, N. meridionalis, N. meridionalis hermitis, N. picta [removed from S of N. plumipes, contra Dahl, 1912a: 35] and Meta aerea).
Nephila edulis Paquin, Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 51, f. 27.1-4 (mf).
Trichonephila edulis Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
References

Berland, L. (1931b). Sur quelques araignées envoyées de Nouvelle Calédonie par M. Risbec. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (2) 3: 666-672. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, L. (1932b). Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignées, etc.). In: Encyclopédie entomologique. Paris 16, 1-485. 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

Harvey, M. S., Austin, A. D. & Adams, M. (2007). The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in the Australasian region. Invertebrate Systematics 21(5): 407-451. doi:10.1071/IS05016 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1896). Araneidae. In: Spencer, B. (ed.) Report of the Horn expedition to central Australia. Part II. Zoology. Dulau and Co., London & Melville, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne, pp. 309-356, pl. 24. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.52122 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1910b). Two new Nephilae from South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 59-62. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1914b). Spiders from the Montebello Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 84(1): 69-92, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 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

Labillardière, J. (1799). Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante. Paris 2, 240-241. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P., Vink, C. & Dupérré, N. (2010). Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key & species list. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand, 118 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1896a). Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 320-344. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875e). On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 43(2): 130-149, pl. 25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Uhl, G. & Vollrath, F. (1998). Genital morphology of Nephila edulis: implications for sperm competition in spiders. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76(1): 39-47. doi:10.1139/z97-170 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