Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Gasteracantha

Gasteracantha taeniata (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-09-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016075]
  • Distribution: India to Polynesia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (3769) of Gasteracantha bradleyi univittinota (Nentwig et al., 2019)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 2f (3743, 3768) of Gasteracantha bradleyi trivittinota (Nentwig et al., 2019)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 2f (3799) of Gasteracantha taeniata obsoletopicta (Nentwig et al., 2019)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 15f 9 subadult f (3792, 3794-3798) of Gasteracantha taeniata maculella (Nentwig et al., 2019)
Taxonomic references
Plectana taeniata Walckenaer, 1841: 169 (Df).
Gasteracantha violenta L. Koch, 1871: 5, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df).
Gasteracantha taeniata L. Koch, 1871: 10.
Gasteracantha hebridisia Butler, 1873a: 165 (Df).
Gasteracantha albiventer Butler, 1873a: 166, pl. 4, f. 6 (Df).
Gasteracantha relegata Simon, 1877c: 235 (Df).
Gasteracantha albertisii Thorell, 1881: 2 (Df).
Gasteracantha wallacei Thorell, 1881: 13 (Df).
Gasteracantha karschii Thorell, 1887: 230 (Df).
Gasteracantha bradleyi trivittinota Strand, 1911b: 206 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016086].
Gasteracantha bradleyi univittinota Strand, 1911b: 206 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016087].
Gasteracantha taeniata maculella Strand, 1911d: 154 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016081].
Gasteracantha taeniata Dahl, 1914: 287.
Gasteracantha taeniata bawensis Strand, 1915d: 235 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016078].
Gasteracantha taeniata jamurensis Strand, 1915d: 235 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016079].
Gasteracantha taeniata obsoletopicta Strand, 1915d: 235, pl. 18, f. 75 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016083].
Gasteracantha taeniata oinokensis Strand, 1915d: 235 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016084].
Gasteracantha taeniata sentanensis Strand, 1915d: 235 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016085].
Gasteracantha bradleyi trivittinota Strand, 1915d: 234, pl. 17, f. 74, pl. 18, f. 83 (f).
Gasteracantha taeniata Chrysanthus, 1959: 202, f. 5, 14, 27 (f).
Gasteracantha taeniata Chrysanthus, 1960: 23, f. 7-8 (Dm).
Gasteracantha taeniata Nentwig et al., 2019: 36, 37 (S of Gasteracantha taeniata bawensis, G. taeniata jamurensis, G. taeniata maculella, G. taeniata obsoletopicta, G. taeniata oinokensis, G. taeniata sentanensis, G. taeniata trivittinota and G. taeniata univittinota).
References

Butler, A. G. (1873a). A monographic list of the species of Gasteracantha or crab-spiders, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1873: 153-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1959). Spiders from south New Guinea II. Nova Guinea N.S. 10: 197-206. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1960). Spiders from south New Guinea III. Nova Guinea, Zoology 3: 23-42. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

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

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019). Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29-51. doi:10.30963/aramit5809 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1877c). Etudes arachnologiques. 6e mémoire. X. Arachnides nouveaux ou peu connus. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 7: 225-242. 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

Strand, E. (1911d). Araneae von den Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 127-199. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1911b). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Spinnen, insbesondere aus der Südsee, des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 77(I,2): 202-207. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1887). Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5-417. 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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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata sentanensis synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata oinokensis synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata obsoletopicta synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata jamurensis synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata bawensis synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata maculella synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata univittinota synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata
2019-09-16 New taxonomic reference entry Nentwig et al., 2019 n/a
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Gasteracantha taeniata trivittinota synonymized with Gasteracantha taeniata