Taxon details


Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863)

  • Rank: Subspecies
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013954]
  • Distribution: South Africa, Eswatini, Mayotte, Madagascar, Seychelles
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila argyrotoxa Gerstäcker, 1873, (2333, 2378)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Nephila cothurnata Gerstäcker, 1873, (2335, 2335a, 2339)
Taxonomic references
Epeira madagascariensis Vinson, 1863: 191, 311, pl. 7, f. 1 (Df).
Nephila cothurnata Gerstaecker, 1873: 499 (Df).
Nephila argyrotoxa Gerstaecker, 1873: 502 (Df).
Nephila madagascariensis Thorell, 1875e: 134.
Nephila madagascariensis Karsch, 1879e: 841, pl. 11, f. 7-9 (Dm).
Nephila inaurata madagascariensis Dahl, 1912a: 57, 72.
Nephila madagascariensis Bonnet, 1929b: 513, pl. 2, f. 1-10 (mf).
Nephila madagascariensis Wiehle, 1960c: 462, f. 7 (f).
Nephila madagascariensis Benoit, 1962a: 231 (elevated to species, rejected).
Nephila madagascariensis Wiehle, 1967b: 195, f. 50 (f; m: f. 47 see Trichonephila clavipes).
Nephila madagascariensis Wiehle, 1967c: 199, f. 13 (f).
Nephila inaurata seychellensis Canard, 1975: 778 (Df).
Nephila madagascariensis Saaristo, 1978: 119, f. 203-210 (mf).
Nephila inaurata madagascariensis Benoit, 1978f: 673 (S).
Nephila inaurata madagascariensis Schult & Sellenschlo, 1983: 222, f. 6, 13-14 (mf).
Nephila inaurata madagascariensis Schmidt & Jocqué, 1986: 209, f. 4-5 (f).
Nephila madagascariensis Saaristo, 2010: 94, f. 18.1-6 (mf).
Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila) [not explicitely, but 'automatically' together with the nominate form].
Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 56, p. 53: 2 f., p. 56: 3 f. (f habitus).
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1962a). Monographie des Araneidae-Gasteracanthinae africains (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 112: 1-70. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1978f). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Tetragnathidae et Araneidae-Nephilinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 663-674. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bonnet, P. (1929b). Les araignées exotiques en Europe. II. Elevage a Toulouse de la grande araignée fileuse de Madagascar et considerations sur l'araneiculture. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 54(5): 501-523. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Canard, A. (1975). Stations africaines d'araignées des genres Nephila Leach et Nephilengys Koch (Araneae, Argiopidae), d'après les collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (3) 306(Zoologie 216): 775-782. 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

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gerstaecker, A. (1873). Arachnoidea. In: Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. Nach dem von Dr. O. Kersten während der v. d. Decken'schen Ost-Afrikanischen Expedition im Jahre 1862 und von C. Cooke auf der Insel Sansibar im Jahre 1864 gesammelten Material. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 461-503, pl. 18 (Araneae: pp. 473-503). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10149 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879e). West-afrikanische Myriopoden und Arachniden. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 825-837. 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

Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. & Jocqué, R. (1986). Die Nephilinae der Comoren (Araneae, Araneidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 100: 205-212. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schult, J. & Sellenschlo, U. (1983). Morphologie und Funktion der Genitalstrukturen bei Nephila (Arach., Aran., Araneidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 80: 221-230. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875e). On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 43(2): 130-149, pl. 25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1960c). Der Embolus des männlichen Spinnentasters. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 1960: 457-480. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1967b). Meta,-eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 183-196. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1967c). Steckengebliebene Emboli in den Vulven von Spinnen (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 197-202. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a
2021-06-10 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
2021-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Wiehle, 1967b n/a
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