Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Argiope

Argiope aetherea (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015341]
  • Distribution: China to Australia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argiope novae-pommeraniae Strand, 1915, 1 f (3554-116)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argiope wogeonicola Strand, 1913, 1 f (3594-116)
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003393) of Argiope regalis L. Koch, 1871
  • Lectotype: Macleay Museum University of Sydney (MMUS), Sydney, Australia; f of Argiope variabilis (Levi, 1983)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argiope aetherea melanopalpis Strand, 1911, 2 f, 1 j (3468-116); 1 f, 1 f (subadult) (3469-116)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argiope friedericii Strand, 1911, 1 f (3542-116); 2 f (3543-116)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Argiope udjirica Strand, 1911, 1 f (3593-116); 1 f (9900825-116)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 3f (3595-116) of Argiope wolfi
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Argiope regalis L. Koch, 1871, (3381)
  • Paralectotype: Macleay Museum University of Sydney (MMUS), Sydney, Australia; 4f of Argiope variabilis (2f designated by Levi 1983, 2 additional f are present in the museum, Helen Smith in litt.) (Levi, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Epeira aetherea Walckenaer, 1841: 112 (Df).
Argiope regalis L. Koch, 1871: 36, pl. 3, f. 4 (Df).
Argiope variabilis Bradley, 1876a: 141, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df).
Argiope lunata Bradley, 1876a: 143, pl. 1, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060818].
Argiope brownii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877a: 284 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060794].
Argiope verecunda Thorell, 1878b: 35 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060849].
Argiope aetherea deusta Thorell, 1881: 68 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060781].
Argiope aetherea annulipes Thorell, 1881: 68 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015342].
Argiope verecunda Pocock, 1897c: 599, pl. 35, f. 6.
Argiope aetherea Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 198, pl. 12, f. 296 (f).
Argiope aetherea melanopalpis Strand, 1911b: 204 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060783].
Argiope friedericii Strand, 1911b: 204 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060807].
Argiope wolfi Strand, 1911b: 204 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060852].
Argiope maerens Kulczyński, 1911c: 473, pl. 20, f. 45 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060819].
Argiope udjirica Strand, 1911d: 142, pl. 5, f. 43 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060846].
Argiope wogeonicola Strand, 1913d: 116 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060851].
Gea rotunda Hogg, 1915a: 444, f. 24 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060838].
Argiope aetherea deusta Strand, 1915d: 211, pl. 13, f. 15, pl. 17, f. 61 (f).
Argiope novae-pommeraniae Strand, 1915d: 212, pl. 16, f. 51 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060823].
Argiope wolfi Strand, 1915d: 212, pl. 16, f. 55 (f).
Argiope wogeonicola Strand, 1915d: 213, pl. 16, f. 56, pl. 17, f. 58 (f).
Argiope friedericii Strand, 1915d: 214, pl. 17, f. 62 (f).
Argiope udjirica Roewer, 1938: 33, f. 22 (f).
Argiope aetherea Chrysanthus, 1958a: 237, f. 7-12, 20, 24 (mf, S of Argiope aetherea deusta and A. udjirica).
Argiope aetherea Main, 1964: 102, f. D-E (f).
Argiope aetherea Chrysanthus, 1971: 10 (S of Argiope boetonica; rejected, see Argiope pictula).
Argiope aetherea Levi, 1983: 313, f. 5-6, 297-309 (mf, S of Argiope aetherea annulipes, A. aetherea melanopalpis, A. browni, A. friederici, A. lunata, A. maerens, A. novaepommeraniae, A. verecunda, A. wogeonicola, A. wolfi and Gea rotunda, S of Argiope aetherea tangana, A. avara angulicosta, A. avara ocelligera, A. avara tristipes and A. lihirica rejected by Jäger, 2012c: 310, see Argiope brunnescentia; S of Argiope aetherea keyensis rejected by Jäger, 2012c: 308, see Argiope modesta).
Argiope aetherea Jäger, 2012c: 312, f. 155-156 (m).
References

Bösenberg, W. & Strand, E. (1906). Japanische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 93-422. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bradley, H. B. (1876a). The araneids of the Chevert Expedition. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 137-150. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1958a). Spiders from south New Guinea I. Nova Guinea N.S. 9: 235-243. 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

Hogg, H. R. (1915a). Report on the spiders collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 20: 425-484. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2012c). A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 272-331, 358-362. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1871). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 1-2]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1-104, pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911c). Spinnen aus Nord-Neu-Guinea. In: Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903 sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann. Nova Guinea 5(Zoologie, Lief. 4): 423-518, pl. 19-20. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10923 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1983). The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(5): 247-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Main, B. Y. (1964). Spiders of Australia: a guide to their identification with brief notes on the natural history of common forms. Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 124 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877a). On some spiders collected by the Rev. George Brown in Duke-of-York Island, New Britain and New Ireland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 45(2): 283-287. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1877.tb00532.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1897c). Spinnen (Araneae). In: Kükenthal, W. (ed.) Ergebnisse einer zoologische Forschungsreise in dem Molukken und Borneo. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 23: 591-629. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1938). Araneae. In: Résultats scientifiques du Voyage aux indes orientales néerlandaises de la SS. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3(19): 1-94. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1911b). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Spinnen, insbesondere aus der Südsee, des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 77(I,2): 202-207. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1911d). Araneae von den Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 127-199. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913d). Neue indoaustralische und polynesische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79(A6): 113-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1915d). Indoaustralische, papuanische und polynesische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums, gesammelt von Dr E. Wolf, Dr J. Elbert u. a. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Hanseatischen Südsee-Expedition 1909. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 36(2): 179-274, pl. 13-19. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1878b). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 5-317. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. 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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