Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Detail
Gen. Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01505] Detail
type Meta fusiformis Thorell, 1877; gender feminine
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Larinia Simon, 1874 by Levy, 1986: 5; not a senior synonym of Larinopa Grasshoff, 1970 (Framenau & Scharff, 2008: 242, contra Levy, 1986: 5); see note under Larinia.
Transferred to other genera:
Lipocrea delicata (Rainbow, 1920) -- see Larinia
Lipocrea tabida (L. Koch, 1872) -- see Larinia
Lipocrea vicina (KulczyƄski, 1911) -- see Larinia
In synonymy:
Lipocrea fasciata (Thorell, 1899, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa).
Lipocrea lutescens (Thorell, 1898, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, sub Larinopa).
Lipocrea quadrinotata (Simon, 1889, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, sub Larinopa).
Lipocrea quinquepunctata (Tullgren, 1910, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa).
Lipocrea quinquepunctata concolor (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa).
Lipocrea tibelloides (Lessert, 1930, T from Larinia) = Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) (Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, sub Larinopa).
Nomina dubia:
Lipocrea melanosticta (Thorell, 1891: 47, j, India/Nicobar Is., originally in Larinia) -- Grasshoff, 1970b: 217, 234, sub Larinopa.
Lipocrea nigrolimbata (Simon, 1909e: 106, j, Vietnam, originally in Larinia) -- Grasshoff, 1970b: 217, 234, sub Larinopa.
Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 | m f | Myanmar to Indonesia     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016299]
Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887: 146 (Dj).
Larinia diluta Thorell, 1890b: 24 (Df).
Larinia diluta Thorell, 1898: 341 (Dm).
Larinopa diluta Grasshoff, 1970b: 233, f. 17a-c (mf, T from Larinia, S of Larinia delicata, rejected by Framenau & Scharff, 2008: 243).
Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | m f | Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016300]
Argiope epeiroides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 301 (Dmf).
Larinia epeiroides Simon, 1895a: 768.
Larinia chloris Grasshoff, 1970b: 222 (S of Larinia epeiroides; rejected by Levy, 1986: 7).
Lipocrea epeiroides Levy, 1986: 7, f. 28-39 (mf, T from Larinia, removed from S of Larinia chloris, rejecting Grasshoff, 1970b: 222).
Lipocrea epeiroides Kunt et al., 2010: 71, f. 1-10 (m).
Lipocrea epeiroides Wunderlich, 2011: 11, f. 4-5 (mf).
Lipocrea epeiroides Keswani & Vankhede, 2013: 66, f. 1A-F, 2A-I (mf).
Lipocrea epeiroides Bosmans & Colombo, 2015: 323, f. 43-48 (mf).
Lipocrea epeiroides Dentici, 2017: 861, f. 1-4 (f).
Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) * | m f | India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016301]
Meta fusiformis Thorell, 1877b: 431 (Df).
Lipocrea fusiformis Thorell, 1878b: 6.
Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1889i: 340 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057814].
Larinia lutescens Thorell, 1898: 342 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057813].
Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1909e: 105 (Df).
Larinopa fusiformis Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, f. 15a-b, 16a-e (Dm, f, T from Larinia, S of Larinia lutescens and L. quadrinotata).
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 1989: 35, f. 8-14 (mf).
Larinia fusiformis Okuma et al., 1993: 23, f. 20C-D (f).
Larinia fusiformis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 612, f. 384a-e, 385a-b (mf).
Larinia fusiformis Chang & Tso, 2004: 28, f. 5-8 (mf).
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2007c: 73, f. 202, 610-613 (mf).
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2009: 447, f. 189-192 (mf).
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023: 56, f. 15-18 (mf; see note at Lipocrea phosop).
Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) | m f | Central, East, Southern Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016302]
Larinia longissima Simon, 1881e: 3 (Df).
Larinia fasciata Thorell, 1899: 41 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057812].
Larinia quinquepunctata Tullgren, 1910: 162 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057815].
Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1930: 632, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057817].
Larinia tibelloides Lessert, 1933: 113, f. 28-30 (Dm).
Larinia quinquepunctata concolor Caporiacco, 1947c: 163 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057816].
Larinopa longissima Grasshoff, 1970b: 230, f. 12a-b, 14a-f (mf, T from Larinia, S of Larinia fasciata, L. quinquepunctata, L. quinquepunctata concolor and L. tibelloides).
Lipocrea longissima Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 44, p. 43: 3 f., p. 44: 6 f. (f).
Lipocrea phosop (Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023) | m f | Thailand     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058500]
Larinia phosop Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023: 55, f. 1-14 (Dmf; N.B. included here in Lipocrea, because of the stated affinity to L. fusiformis [the type species of Lipocrea], the validity of Lipocrea is doubted, but not revised).
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