Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila plumipes (Latreille, 1804)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013971]
  • Distribution: Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Is., New Ireland
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Macleay Museum University of Sydney (MMUS), Sydney, Australia; cf. f of Nephila cunninghami
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 7j (A0003443) of Nephila flagellans L. Koch, 1872
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 5f 5j (A0003442) of Nephila insularis Keyserling, 1887
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003444), f (A0003445) of Nephila nigritarsis L. Koch, 1872
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003448) of Nephila venosa L. Koch, 1867
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila nigritarsis L. Koch, 1872, (1348)
Taxonomic references
Aranea plumipes Latreille, 1804a: 275 (Df).
Nephila cunninghamii MacLeay, 1827: 468 (D).
Nephila venosa L. Koch, 1867b: 183 (Df).
Nephila victorialis L. Koch, 1872a: 150, pl. 12, f. 3 (Df).
Nephila nigritarsis L. Koch, 1872a: 152, pl. 12, f. 4 (Df).
Nephila flagellans L. Koch, 1872a: 153, pl. 12, f. 5-6 (Dmf, in part, see N. tetragnathoides).
Nephila venosa L. Koch, 1872a: 148, pl. 12, f. 1 (j).
Nephila labillardierii Thorell, 1875e: 130, pl. 25, f. 1-2 (Df).
Nephila plumipes Blackwall, 1877: 19, pl. 2, f. 13 (Dm).
Nephila insularis Keyserling, 1887a: 215, pl. 19, f. 5 (Df).
Nephila fletcheri Rainbow, 1895: 347, pl. 22, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila edwardsii Rainbow, 1895: 349, pl. 22, f. 2 (Df).
Nephila ventricosa Rainbow, 1895: 351, pl. 23, f. 1-2 (Dmf).
Nephila ornata Rainbow, 1896a: 320, pl. 18, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila plumipes Dahl, 1912a: 35, 60 (S of Nephila cunninghamii, N. edwardsii, N. flagellans, N. fletcheri, N. insularis, N. insulicola [rejected by Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 436, see Trichonephila antipodiana], N. labillardierii, N. nigritarsis, N. ornata Rainbow, N. picta [rejected by Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 439, see Trichonephila edulis], N. venosa, N. ventricosa and N. victorialis).
Nephila plumipes Berland, 1924a: 216, f. 121 (m).
Nephila plumipes Berland, 1931b: 671, f. 12-15 (mf).
Nephila plumipes Chrysanthus, 1971: 42, f. 87-91 (mf).
Nephila plumipes Davies, 1988b: 296, f. 19 (mf).
Nephila plumipes Schneider, Thomas & Elgar, 2001: 410, f. 1 (m).
Nephila plumipes Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 429, f. 8-9, 33-45 (mf).
Nephila plumipes Kuntner, Coddington & Schneider, 2009: 1452, f. 1A (m).
Trichonephila plumipes Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
References

Berland, L. (1924a). Araignées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty. In: Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds.) Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie. Vol. III. L. II. C. W. Kreidel, Berlin, pp. 157-255. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6790 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Blackwall, J. (1877). A list of spiders captured in the Seychelles Islands, by Professor E. Perceval Wright, M. D., F. L. S.; with descriptions of species supposed to be new to arachnologists. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (2) 3(1): 1-22, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1971). Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea I (Argyopidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 113: 1-52. 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

Davies, V. T. (1988b). An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 273-332. 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

Keyserling, E. (1887a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 35-36]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 153-232, pl. 12-20. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1867b). Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 173-250. 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., 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

Latreille, P. A. (1804a). Arachnides. In: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Tome septième. Dufart, Paris, pp. 144-305. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15764 download pdf -- Show included taxa

MacLeay, W. S. (1827). Annulosa. In: King, P. P. (ed.) Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. London 2, 438-469. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1895). Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (2) 10(2): 347-360, pl. 22-23. 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

Schneider, J. M., Thomas, M. L. & Elgar, M. A. (2001). Ectomised conductors in the golden orb-web spider, Nephila plumipes (Araneoidea): a male adaptation to sexual conflict?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49: 410-415. 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

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