Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Nephila

Nephila tetragnathoides (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-09-10
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013984]
  • Distribution: Fiji, Tonga, Niue
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Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 2f (A0003437), 1f (A0003441), 1j (A0003438), 1j (A0003439), 1j (A0003440) of Nephila prolixa L. Koch, 1872
Taxonomic references
Epeira tetragnatoides Walckenaer, 1841: 100 (Df, lapsus).
Epeira durvilla Walckenaer, 1841: 103 (Df).
Nephila prolixa L. Koch, 1872a: 149, pl. 12, f. 2 (Df).
Nephila flagellans L. Koch, 1872a: 153, pl. 12, f. 5, 5a-b, 6, 6a (mf, in part, misidentified).
Nephila tetragnathoides Dahl, 1912a: 35, 60 (S of Nephila durvilla and N. prolixa).
Nephila prolixa Strand, 1915d: 206, pl. 16, f. 49 (mf).
Nephila flagellans Gerhardt, 1921: 207, f. 18 (m).
Nephila tetragnathoides Harvey, Austin & Adams, 2007: 434, f. 47-59 (Dm, f, S of Nephila prolixa removed from S of N. plumipes [now Trichonephila], confirming Dahl, 1912a: 35).
References

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

Gerhardt, U. (1921). Vergleichende Studien über die Morphologie des männlichen Tasters und die Biologie der Kopulation der Spinnen. Versuch einer zusammenfassenden Darstellung auf Grund eigener Beobachtungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87A(4): 78-247, pl. 1-3. 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

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 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

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

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-09-10 New taxonomic reference entry Gerhardt, 1921 n/a