Taxon details


Eustala anastera (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-07-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015911]
  • Distribution: North, Central America
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Taxonomic references
Epeira anastera Walckenaer, 1841: 33 (Df).
Epeira eustala Walckenaer, 1841: 37 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061418].
Epeira apotroga Walckenaer, 1841: 43 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061419].
Epeira spatulata Walckenaer, 1841: 44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061420].
Epeira illustrata Walckenaer, 1841: 45 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061421].
Epeira decolorata Walckenaer, 1841: 49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061422].
Epeira vivida Walckenaer, 1841: 54 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061423].
Epeira triflex Walckenaer, 1841: 60 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061424].
Epeira trinotata Walckenaer, 1841: 75 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061425].
Epeira subfusca Walckenaer, 1841: 76 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061426].
Epeira prompta Hentz, 1847: 473, pl. 31, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061427].
Epeira hebes Hentz, 1847: 473, pl. 31, f. 7 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061428].
Epeira bombycinaria Hentz, 1847: 476, pl. 31, f. 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061429].
Epeira eustala Marx, 1890a: 544 (S of Epeira bombycinaria and E. parvula; S of E. parvula rejected by Levi, 1977a: 118, see Eustala cepina).
Epeira bombycinaria Keyserling, 1892: 145, pl. 7, f. 107 (mf).
Epeira anastera McCook, 1894: 172, pl. 8, f. 1-4 (mf, S of Eustala cepina; revalidated by Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 103).
Eustala anastera Simon, 1895a: 795, f. 860 (f).
Eustala anastera F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 506, pl. 48, f. 7-8 (mf, S of Epeira prompta).
Eustala anastera Petrunkevitch, 1911: 340 (S of Eperia apotroga, E. decolorata, E. eustala, E. hebes, E. illustrata, E. spatulata, E. subfusca, E. triflex, E. trinotata and E. vivida).
Eustala anastera Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 331, f. 215 (f).
Eustala anastera Comstock, 1940: 524, f. 549-554 (f).
Eustala anastera Muma, 1943: 92, pl. XIII, f. 18 (f).
Eustala anastera Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 102 (S of Eustala conchlea; revalidated by Levi, 1977a: 122).
Eustala triflex Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 103 (removed from S of Eustala anastera, contra Petrunkevitch, 1911: 340; S confirmed by Levi, 1977a: 114).
Eustala anastera Kaston, 1948: 233, f. 706-709, 727 (f).
Eustala anastera Archer, 1951a: 19, f. 46 (m).
Eustala anastera Chickering, 1955: 414, f. 24-29 (mf, S of Eustala anastera buliafera and E. a. leuca, rejected by Levi, 1977a: 122, see Eustala conchlea; S of Eustala prompta confirmed).
Eustala anastera Levi, 1977a: 114, f. 205-232, 280-285, 298-302, 314-315 (mf, S of Eustala triflex confirmed, contra Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 103).
Eustala anastera Coddington, 1990: 14, f. 60 (m).
Eustala anastera Breene et al., 1993: 104, f. 155A-C (mf).
Eustala anastera Levi, 2002: 533, f. 13-15, 208-210 (mf).
Eustala anastera Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 46, f. 308-310 (mf).
Eustala anastera Dondale et al., 2003: 267, f. 600-611 (mf).
References

Archer, A. F. (1951a). Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1. American Museum Novitates 1487: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1944). Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bulletin of the University of Utah 35(9): 1-267. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1955). The genus Eustala (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 112(6): 389-518. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 727 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1847). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5: 443-479, pl. 23-24, 30-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1977a). The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 61-127. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marx, G. (1890a). Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12: 497-594. download pdf -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf 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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