Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Gasteracantha

Gasteracantha mengei Keyserling, 1864

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2022-07-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016036]
  • Distribution: Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (Tan et al., 2019a)
Taxonomic references
Gasteracantha mengei Keyserling, 1864: 67, pl. 1, f. 5 (Df).
Atelacantha malayensis Simon, 1864: 285 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054568].
Gasteracantha malayensis van Hasselt, 1882: 13 (Df).
Gasteracantha mengei Dahl, 1914: 270, f. 10 (f, S of Gasteracantha malayensis).
Gasteracantha mengei Tan et al., 2019a: 46, f. 1I, 9A-F, 10A-B (f).
References

Dahl, F. (1914). Die Gasteracanthen des Berliner Zoologischen Museums und deren geographische Verbreitung. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 7: 235-301. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1882). Araneae. In: Veth, P. J. (ed.) Midden-Sumatra 4A(11). Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra-expeditie, uitgerust door het aardrijkskundig genootschap, 1877-1879. Brill, Leiden, pp. 1-56, pl. 1-5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.119451 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, 540 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tan, J., Chan, Z. J., Ong, C. A. & Yong, H. S. (2019a). Phylogenetic relationships of Actinacantha Simon, Gasteracantha Sundevall, Macracantha Hasselt and Thelacantha Simon spiny orbweavers (Araneae: Araneidae) in Peninsular Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 32-55. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0003 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2019-03-14 New taxonomic reference entry Tan et al., 2019a n/a