World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Courtaraneus Framenau, Vink, McQuillan & Simpson, 2022 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05222

type Epeira orientalis Urquhart, 1887; gender masculine

Courtaraneus orientalis (Urquhart, 1887) | | New Zealand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016734 TYPE SPECIES

Epeira orientalis Urquhart, 1887: 79, pl. 7, f. 3 (Dm, Djf; m = Backobourkia heroine per Court & Forster, 1988: 98, rejected by Framenau et al., 2022: 139) Original description

Epeira orientalis Urquhart, 1888: 114 (Df)

Neoscona orientalis Court & Forster, 1988: 98, f. 501-503 (f, removed from S of Araneus brouni, rejecting Dalmas, 1917a: 383)

Courtaraneus orientalis Framenau et al., 2022: 133, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-D, 4A-C, 5A-B, 6A-D (mf, T from Neoscona)