Taxon details


Ero aphana (Walckenaer, 1802)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-02-02
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005666]
  • Distribution: Europe, Macaronesia, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), Kazakhstan, Iran. Introduced to Réunion, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), China, Philippines, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Aranea aphana Walckenaer, 1802: 206 (D).
Theridion aphana Walckenaer, 1805: 77.
Theridion aphana Walckenaer, 1841: 330 (Dmf).
Ero atomaria C. L. Koch, 1845: 106, f. 1033 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057641].
Ero aphana Simon, 1881a: 33, pl. 26, f. 9 (mf, T from Theridion, S of Ero atomaria).
Ero atomaria Dahl, 1883: 35 (Dm).
Ero aphana Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 13, pl. 1, f. 3 (mf).
Ero aphana Kulczyński, 1899: 403, pl. 8, f. 77 (f).
Ero aphana Bösenberg, 1902: 112, pl. 10, f. 141 (mf).
Ero aphana Simon, 1932: 774, 778, f. 1119-1120 (mf).
Ero aphana Wiehle, 1953: 62, f. 138-143 (mf).
Ero aphana Merrett & Snazell, 1975: 106, f. 1-4 (mf).
Ero aphana Punda, 1975b: 68, f. 152-154 (f).
Ero aphana Canard, 1982: 77, pl. 3, f. 2-3, 7-8 (mf).
Ero aphana Zhou, Wang & Zhu, 1983: 156, f. 7a-e (mf).
Ero aphana Roberts, 1985: 170, f. 75d (mf).
Ero aphana Hu & Wu, 1989: 177, f. 147.1-2 (f; probably misidentified, per Komnenov, 2014: 37).
Ero aphana Wang, 1990a: 39, f. II.5-7 (f; probably misidentified, per Komnenov, 2014: 37).
Ero aphana Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 92, f. 207 (mf).
Ero aphana Roberts, 1995: 260, f. (mf).
Ero luzonensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 304, f. 180a-f (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005692].
Ero aphana Roberts, 1998: 275, f. (mf).
Ero aphana Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 73, f. 29I-J (f).
Ero aphana Thaler, van Harten & Knoflach, 2004: 359, f. 1-2, 5-8, 19, 25, 31, 37-40, 47-48, 52, 53a-b (mf).
Ero aphana Harms & Harvey, 2009b: 268, f. 26A-E, 28I (mf, S of Ero luzonensis).
Ero aphana Le Peru, 2011: 314, f. 545 (mf).
Ero luzonensis Yin et al., 2012: 196, f. 51a-f (mf).
Ero aphana Townley, Harms & Benjamin, 2013: 421, f. 9 (m).
Ero aphana Jacquot, Derepas & Deguine, 2016: 424, f. 3a-f (m).
Ero aphana Baba, Katayama & Tanikawa, 2017: 11, f. 1-5 (mf).
Ero aphana Sawers et al., 2023: 15, f. 1-2, 3A-G, 4 (m).
References

Baba, Y. G., Katayama, N. & Tanikawa, A. (2017). New records of the pirate spider Ero aphana (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana 34: 11-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Canard, A. (1982). Les araignées du Massif Armoricain II. Les Mimetides. Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Bretagne 54: 77-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1883). Analytische Bearbeitung der Spinnen Norddeutschlands mit einer anatomisch-biologischen Einleitung. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 5: 13-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Harms, D. & Harvey, M. S. (2009b). Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae: Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna. Invertebrate Systematics 23(3): 231-280. doi:10.1071/is08015 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jacquot, M., Derepas, B. & Deguine, J.-P. (2016). Seven newly recorded species and families of spiders from Reunion Island (Malagasy region) (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 121(4): 421-430. doi:10.3406/bsef.2016.2779 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zwölfter Band, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Merrett, P. & Snazell, R. G. (1975). New and rare British spiders. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(4): 106-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Punda, H. (1975b). Pająki Borów Sosnowych. Polska Akad. Nauk, 91 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sawers, M. A. R., El-Bishlawy, S. M. O., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. S. (2023). The first record of Ero aphana (Araneae: Mimetidae) in Egypt. Arab Journal of Plant Protection 41(1): 15-17. doi:10.22268/AJPP-41.1.015017 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1881a). Les arachnides de France. Tome cinquième, première partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-180, pl. 25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 4e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 773-978. 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

Thaler, K., Harten, A. van & Knoflach, B. (2004). Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C.L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia 13: 359-368. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Townley, M. A., Harms, D. & Benjamin, S. P. (2013). Phylogenetic affinities of Phobetinus to other pirate spider genera (Araneae: Mimetidae) as indicated by spinning field morphology. Arthropod Structure & Development 42: 407-423. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2013.04.003 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1802). Faune parisienne. Insectes. Ou histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris, classés d'après le système de Fabricius. Tome seconde. Dentu, Paris, pp. 187-250, 428-430. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8151 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. 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

Wang, J. F. (1990a). Study on the spiders of family Mimetidae from south China (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 15: 36-47. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1953). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhou, N. L., Wang, H. & Zhu, C. D. (1983). [New records of spiders from Uygur Autonomous Region and Heilongjiang Province, China]. Journal of the Bethune Medical University 9(suppl.): 153-160. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-02-02 Species distribution update Sherwood et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)
2023-04-18 New taxonomic reference entry Sawers et al., 2023 n/a
2019-02-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baba, Katayama & Tanikawa, 2017 n/a
2019-02-22 Species distribution update Baba, Katayama & Tanikawa, 2017 n/a (Old value)
2018-03-14 Species distribution update Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 n/a (Old value)
2017-09-26 New taxonomic reference entry Jacquot, Derepas & Deguine, 2016 n/a
2017-09-26 Species distribution update Jacquot, Derepas & Deguine, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2015-03-17 Taxonomic reference update Komnenov, 2014 n/a (Old value)
2015-03-17 Taxonomic reference update Komnenov, 2014 n/a (Old value)