Taxon details


Trichonephila antipodiana (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013938]
  • Distribution: China, Myanmar and Philippines to New Guinea, Solomon Is., Australia (Queensland)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); Nephila sarasinorum Merian, 1911, 1 f (NMB-ARAN-00605 a)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); 3 (4018-119), 1f 1jf (4996-119), 1f (4997-119), 1jf (4998-119), 2m 8f (5027-119), 6f 2jf (5028-119) of Nephila celebesiana and of Nephila imperialis novae-mecklenburgiae
Taxonomic references
Epeira antipodiana Walckenaer, 1841: 93 (Df).
Epeira imperialis Doleschall, 1857: 413 (Df; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1805, see Caerostris sexcuspidata).
Epeira imperialis Doleschall, 1859: 28, pl. 12, f. 2 (j).
Nephila ornata Blackwall, 1864b: 43 (Dj; preoccupied by Adams, 1847, see Nephila pilipes).
Nephila baeri Simon, 1877b: 82 (Df).
Nephila imperialis Thorell, 1878b: 118.
Nephila holmerae Thorell, 1881: 141 (Df).
Nephila laurinae Thorell, 1881: 142 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013956].
Nephila nigritarsis insulicola Pocock, 1900b: 160 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058960].
Nephila sarasinorum Merian, 1911: 198, pl. 9, f. 10-11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013973].
Nephila imperialis novae-mecklenburgiae Strand, 1911b: 204 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013957].
Nephila ambigua Kulczyński, 1911c: 464, pl. 20, f. 41-42 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013937].
Nephila antipodiana Dahl, 1912a: 35, 59, 61 (S of Nephila baeri, N. holmerae and N. ornata Blackwall).
Nephila imperialis Dahl, 1912a: 36, 59 (Dm).
Nephila celebesiana Strand, 1915d: 206, pl. 13, f. 12-13, pl. 16, f. 50 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013939].
Nephila imperialis Liao, Chen & Song, 1984: 69, f. 1A-C (mf; misidentified per Yuan & Zhang, 2020: 120).
Nephila imperialis Song, 1987: 173, f. 133 (mf; misidentified per Yuan & Zhang, 2020: 120).
Nephila antipodiana Yin et al., 1990: 2, f. 1-5 (mf).
Nephila antipodiana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 563, f. 348a-h (f).
Nephila antipodiana Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 217, f. 124I, L, S, 125A (mf).
Nephila imperialis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 217, f. 124O-P, 125D (mf; misidentified per Yuan & Zhang, 2020: 120).
Nephila laurinae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 78, f. 33A-I (mf; misidentified per Yuan & Zhang, 2020: 120).
Nephila antipodiana Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 436, f. 3, 6, 60-72 (mf, S of Nephila ambigua, N. celebesiana, N. imperialis, N. laurinae, N. laurinae novaemecklenburgiae, N. nigritarsis insulicola and N. sarasinorum).
Nephila antipodiana Kim, Park & Lee, 2007: 123, f. 1a-d (f).
Trichonephila antipodiana Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
References

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

Blackwall, J. (1864b). Descriptions of seven new species of East Indian spiders received from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 14(79): 36-45. doi:10.1080/00222936408681653 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1912a). Seidenspinne und Spinneseide. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6(1): 1-90. doi:10.1002/mmnz.19120060101 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1857). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie 13: 339-434, pl. 1-2. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66068 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Harvey, M. S., Austin, A. D. & Adams, M. (2007). The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in the Australasian region. Invertebrate Systematics 21(5): 407-451. doi:10.1071/IS05016 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kim, J. P., Park, Y. C. & Lee, Y. B. (2007). Redescription of Nephila antipodiana (Walckenaer), 1841 from Philippines (Araneae, Nephilidae). Korean Arachnology 23: 123-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911c). Spinnen aus Nord-Neu-Guinea. In: Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903 sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann. Nova Guinea 5(Zoologie, Lief. 4): 423-518, pl. 19-20. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10923 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C. A., Cheng, R. C., Gregorič, M., Lupse, N., Lokovsek, T., Lemmon, E. M., Lemmon, A. R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy082 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Liao, C. H., Chen, M. G. & Song, D. X. (1984). On morphological characteristics and biology of the silk spider Nephila imperialis (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 30: 67-71. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Merian, P. (1911). Die Spinnenfauna von Celebes. Beiträge zur Tiergeographie im Indoaustralischen Archipel. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 31: 165-354. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900b). Chilopoda, Diplopoda and Arachnida. In: Andrews, C. W. (ed.) A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). London, pp. 153-162. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1877b). Etudes arachnologiques. 5e Mémoire. IX. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Philippines par MM. G.-A Baer et Laglaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 7: 53-96, pl. 3. 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

Song, D. X. (1987). Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae). Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing, 376 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1911b). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Spinnen, insbesondere aus der Südsee, des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 77(I,2): 202-207. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1915d). Indoaustralische, papuanische und polynesische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums, gesammelt von Dr E. Wolf, Dr J. Elbert u. a. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Hanseatischen Südsee-Expedition 1909. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 36(2): 179-274, pl. 13-19. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1878b). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 5-317. 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

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Xie, L. P. & Peng, X. J. (1990). New and newly recorded species of the spiders of family Araneidae from China (Arachnida, Araneae). In: Spiders in China: One Hundred New and Newly Recorded Species of the Families Araneidae and Agelenidae. Hunan Normal University Press, pp. 1-171. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X. & Zhang, J. X. (2003). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Science Press, Beijing, 418 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2020-11-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2020-11-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2020-11-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2020-11-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2019-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Kuntner et al., 2019 n/a
2019-06-15 Species transferred to new genus Kuntner et al., 2019 Species transferred from Nephila to Trichonephila