Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Hortophora

Hortophora biapicata (L. Koch, 1871)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-11-11
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015875]
  • Distribution: Australia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f (Davies, 1980b)
  • Holotype: Museum of Victoria (NMV), Melbourne, Australia; f (K-931) of Epeira frosti (Framenau et al., 2021b)
  • Holotype: Museum Wiesbaden, formerly Naturhistorisches Museum (MWNH), Wiesbaden, Germany; f (331) of Aranea biapicatifera (Framenau et al., 2021b)
  • Neotype: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB), Australia; m (S 361) (Davies, 1980b)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); j (A0001751)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); j (A0001752)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Epeira biapicata L. Koch, 1871, (3346)
Taxonomic references
Epeira biapicata L. Koch, 1871: 54, pl. 4, f. 4 (Df).
Epeira frosti Hogg, 1896: 315, pl. 24, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014886].
Aranea biapicatifera Strand, 1907i: 202 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014740].
Aranea producta Strand, 1913c: 608 (misidentified per Framenau et al., 2021b: 300).
Araneus transmarinus Dondale, 1966: 1164, f. 2D-G (S of Epeira biapicata, rejected by Davies, 1980b: 128).
Eriophora biapicata Davies, 1980b: 128, f. 9-15 (Dm, f, removed from S of Eriophora transmarina).
Hortophora biapicata Framenau et al., 2021b: 280, f. 1A-C, 2A, 3A-B, 5A-D, 6A-H, 7A-H (mf, T from Eriophora, S of Araneus biapicatifer and A. frosti).
References

Davies, V. T. (1980b). Two large Australian orb-weaving spiders, Eriophora transmarina (Keyserling 1865) and Eriophora biapicata (L. Koch 1871). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 125-133. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi:10.1071/ZO9661157 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Framenau, V. W., Baptista, R. L. C., Oliveira, F. S. M. & Castanheira, P. de S. (2021b). Taxonomic revision of the new spider genus Hortophora, the Australasian garden orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics 5(2): 275-334. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.5.72474 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1896). Araneidae. In: Spencer, B. (ed.) Report of the Horn expedition to central Australia. Part II. Zoology. Dulau and Co., London & Melville, Mullen and Slade, Melbourne, pp. 309-356, pl. 24. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.52122 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1871). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 1-2]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1-104, pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907i). Einige Spinnen aus Kamerun, Java und Australien. Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 60: 177-219. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913c). Über einige australische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 35(5): 599-624. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-11-11 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2021-11-11 Species synonymy Framenau et al., 2021b Hortophora frosti synonymized with Hortophora biapicata
2021-11-11 Species synonymy Framenau et al., 2021b Hortophora biapicatifera synonymized with Hortophora biapicata
2021-11-11 New taxonomic reference entry Framenau et al., 2021b n/a
2021-11-11 Species transferred to new genus Framenau et al., 2021b Species transferred from Eriophora to Hortophora