Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Araneus

Araneus ventriosus (Urquhart, 1891)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2019-04-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015290]
  • Distribution: Australia (Tasmania)
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: ; f (whereabouts of type material unknown, unidentifiable) (Framenau, 2019)
Taxonomic references
Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1891b: 237 (Df; N.B.: not Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1892b: 243 from New Zealand, see A. ventricosellus; omitted by Bonnet).
Araneus ventriosus Framenau, 2019: 23 (nomen dubium).
References

Framenau, V. W. (2019). Generic and family transfers, and nomina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions. Evolutionary Systematics 3: 1-27. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.3.33454 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1891b). On new species of Tasmanian Araniedae [sic]. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1890: 236-253. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-04-23 Taxon is nomen dubium Framenau, 2019 Araneus ventriosus (Urquhart, 1891) declared a nomen dubium
2019-04-23 New taxonomic reference entry Framenau, 2019 n/a