Taxon details


Nephilengys instigans (Butler, 1876)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2023-04-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057833]
  • Distribution: Mauritius (Rodrigues)
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 1f 1j (Kuntner & Agnarsson, 2011)
Taxonomic references
Nephila instigans Butler, 1876b: 442 (Df).
Nephila instigans Butler, 1878a: 504, pl. 52, f. 10 (f).
Nephilengys instigans Kuntner & Agnarsson, 2011: 486 (nomen dubium, removed from S of N. borbonica).
References

Butler, A. G. (1876b). Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida and Myriopoda from Rodriguez, collected by Messrs. George Gulliver and H. H. Slater. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 17(102): 439-446. doi:10.1080/00222937608681989 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1878a). Myriopoda and Arachnida. In: Zoology of Rodriguez. An account of the petrological, botanical and zoological collections made in Kergueleen's Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus expedition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168: 497-509, pl. 52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M. & Agnarsson, I. (2011). Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(2): 477-488. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.02.002 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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