Taxon details

Family: Hersiliidae / Genus: Hersilia

Hersilia sumatrana (Thorell, 1890)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006053]
  • Distribution: India, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy; f (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
  • Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; m (2280/18) of Hersilia stevensi (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1895.9.21.107) of Hersilia pectinata (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
  • Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China; f (AR9015) of Hersilia yunnanensis (Lin & Li, 2022a)
  • Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2f (2287/18) of Hersilia stevensi (Baehr & Baehr, 1993b)
Taxonomic references
Chalinura sumatrana Thorell, 1890a: 319 (Dj; described in a fossil genus).
Hersilia sumatrana Thorell, 1890b: 8 (Df).
Tama sumatrana Simon, 1893a: 445.
Hersilia pectinata Thorell, 1895b: 58 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006043].
Hersilia pectinata Pocock, 1900a: 241 (S of Hersilia peguana, rejected by Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 78, see H. peguana, nomen dubium).
Hersilia ceylonica Strand, 1907k: 124 (f; invalid provisional name).
Hersilia stevensi Sinha, 1951b: 123, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054146].
Hersilia yunnanensis Wang, Song & Qiu, 1993: 33, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006063].
Hersilia pectinata Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 48, f. 32c-d (m).
Hersilia sumatrana Baehr & Baehr, 1993b: 50, f. 33e-f (f, T from Tama, S of Hersilia stevensi).
Hersilia yunnanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 80, f. 32M-N (f).
Hersilia sumatrana Lin & Li, 2022a: 140, f. 7A-C (f, S of Hersilia yunnanensis).
Hersilia sumatrana Hoang, 2024: 16, f. 1-13 (mf, S of Hersilia pectinata).
References

Baehr, M. & Baehr, B. (1993b). The Hersiliidae of the Oriental Region including New Guinea. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Arachnida, Araneae). Spixiana 19(Suppl.): 1-95. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hoang, Q. D. (2024). First record of the genus Hersilia Audouin, 1826 and family Hersiliidae (Araneae) from Vietnam. Far Eastern Entomologist 509: 15-20. doi:10.25221/fee.509.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2022a). Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines. Zoological Systematics 47(2): 132-145. doi:10.11865/zs.2022204 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sinha, T. B. (1951b). Some Indian spiders of the family Hersiliidae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 48: 121-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907k). Süd- und ostasiatische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Görlitz 25: 107-215. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 28: 5-421. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890b). Aracnidi di Nias e di Sumatra raccolti nel 1886 dal Sig. E. Modigliani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 5-106. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wang, X. P., Song, D. X. & Qiu, Q. H. (1993). A new species of the family Hersiliidae from Yunnan (Araneae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 18: 33-35. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-10-07 Species distribution update Hoang, 2024 n/a (Old value)
2024-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Hoang, 2024 n/a
2024-10-07 Species synonymy Hoang, 2024 Hersilia pectinata synonymized with Hersilia sumatrana
2022-04-13 Species distribution update Lin & Li, 2022a n/a (Old value)
2022-04-13 New taxonomic reference entry Lin & Li, 2022a n/a
2022-04-13 Species synonymy Lin & Li, 2022a Hersilia yunnanensis synonymized with Hersilia sumatrana