Taxon details


Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-10-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016706]
  • Distribution: North America. Introduced to Hawaii, Canary Is., Madeira
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Epeira crucifera Lucas, 1838: 42, pl. 6, f. 3 (Df).
Epeira lentiginosa Blackwall, 1862a: 378 (Df).
Epeira hentzii Keyserling, 1864: 97, pl. 5, f. 10-11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060928].
Epeira domiciliorum Emerton, 1884: 312, pl. 33, f. 17, pl. 36, f. 1, 4 (mf, misidentified).
Epeira crucifera Kulczyński, 1899: 394, pl. 8, f. 88-97 (f, Dm).
Aranea crucifera ladislausi Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060912].
Aranea crucifera albimaculata Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060911].
Aranea crucifera pyramidella Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060914].
Aranea crucifera ochroleucella Strand, 1908c: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060913].
Neoscona benjamina Comstock, 1912: 498, f. 532-535 (f).
Neoscona benjamina Comstock, 1940: 511, f. 534 (f).
Neoscona arkansa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 77, f. 217-218 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060903].
Neoscona nebraskensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 77, f. 219-220 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060953].
Neoscona sacra Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 108 (Tmf from Araneus, S, rejected).
Neoscona benjamina Kaston, 1948: 246, f. 752, 777-778 (f).
Neoscona hentzii Berman & Levi, 1971: 478, f. 51-58, 128 (mf, removed from S of Neoscona benjamina, S of Neoscona arkansa and N. nebraskensis).
Neoscona hentzi Kaston, 1977: 30, f. 22 (m).
Neoscona crucifera Grasshoff, 1986: 62, f. 79-84 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus crucifera albimaculatus, A. c. ladislausi, A. c. ochroleucellus, A. c. pyramidellus and Neoscona hentzi).
Neoscona crucifera Dondale et al., 2003: 173, f. 372-377 (mf).
Neoscona crucifera Jiménez et al., 2024: 189, f. 29-30, 94-95 (f).
References

Berman, J. D. & Levi, H. W. (1971). The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141(8): 465-500. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1862a). Descriptions of newly-discovered spiders from the island of Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9(53): 370-382. doi:10.1080/00222936208681249 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1942a). A hundred new species of American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 32(13): 1-117. 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

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

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book. A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3163 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

Emerton, J. H. (1884). New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1986). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jiménez, M.-L., Chamé-Vázquez, D., Palacios-Cardiel, C. & Van Devender, T. R. (2024). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Sky Island Mountains of Sonora: a survey at Rancho Las Playitas, Arizpe and Bacoachi with new species records for Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 100(3): 175-211. doi:10.3956/2024-100.3.175 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

Kaston, B. J. (1977). Supplement to the spiders of Connecticut. Journal of Arachnology 4: 1-72. 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

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1838). Arachnides, Myriapodes et Thysanoures. In: Barker-Webb, P. & S. Berthelot (eds.) Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries. Paris 2(2), 19-52, pl. 6-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908c). Diagnosen neuer aussereuropäischer Argiopiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 33: 1-4. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2024-10-14 New taxonomic reference entry Jiménez et al., 2024 n/a