Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Backobourkia

Backobourkia heroine (L. Koch, 1871)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015881]
  • Distribution: Australia (mainland, Norfolk Is.), New Caledonia, possibly New Zealand
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  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
Taxonomic references
Epeira heroine L. Koch, 1871: 51, pl. 4, f. 2 (Df).
Epeira transmarina L. Koch, 1871: 59, pl. 5, f. 2 (f, misidentified, in part).
Epeira heroine Keyserling, 1886a: 138, pl. 11, f. 3 (Dm).
Epeira annulata Keyserling, 1886a: 141 (Df).
Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1892b: 243, [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015278] (Df; preoccupied by Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1891, not by Epeira ventricosa L. Koch, 1878).
Aranea ventricosella Roewer, 1942a: 835 (replacement name for "Epeira ventricosa Urquhart" which is just a lapsus, but since the intended Urquhart name is actually preoccupied, Roewer's replacement name can be used).
Araneus heroine Dondale, 1966: 1166, f. 2A-C (mf, S; N.B.: some specimens belong to B. brouni).
Araneus heroine Hickman, 1967: 65, f. 115-117 (mf; N.B.: some specimens may belong to B. brouni).
Eriophora heroine Paquin et al., 2008d: 4 (S).
Backobourkia heroine Framenau et al., 2010: 92, f. 1C-E, 4A-D, 5A-B, 6A-K, 7A-C, 8A-C (Tmf from Eriophora).
References

Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi:10.1071/ZO9661157 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Framenau, V. W., Dupérré, N., Blackledge, T. A. & Vink, C. (2010). Systematics of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68: 79-111. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1886a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 33-34]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 87-152, pl. 7-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 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

Paquin, P., Vink, C., Dupérré, N., Sirvid, P. J. & Court, D. J. (2008d). Nomina dubia and faunistic issues with New Zealand spiders (Araneae). Insecta Mundi 46: 1-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1892b). Descriptions of new species of Araneidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 230-253. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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