Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Neoscona

Neoscona rufipalpis (Lucas, 1858)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-06-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016748]
  • Distribution: Cape Verde, St. Helena, Africa, Yemen
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Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); m (A0003421)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Epeira semiannulata Karsch, 1879, (2560, 2951)
Taxonomic references
Epeira rufipalpis Lucas, 1858: 422 (Df).
Epeira semiannulata Karsch, 1879a: 334 (Df).
Epeira semiannulata Simon, 1884k: 14, pl. 1, f. 7-8 (f, Dm).
Aranea semi-annulata Thorell, 1899: 49 (S of Epeira penicillipes and E. kersteni; E. penicillipes removed from S by Grasshoff, 1986: 78, see Neoscona penicillipes; E. kersteni removed from S by Grasshoff, 1986: 84, see Neoscona triangula).
Araneus rufipalpis Pocock, 1900g: 849.
Aranea rufipalpis Strand, 1908e: 287 (D four varieties).
Aranea rufipalpis Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 107 (f).
Araneus rufipalpis Lessert, 1930: 644, f. 19 (f, S of Epeira semiannulata).
Afraranea rufipalpis Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus).
Neoscona rufipalpis Grasshoff, 1986: 73, f. 101-112 (mf).
Neoscona rufipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 13, p. 13: 10 f., p. 14: 2 f. (f).
Neoscona rufipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2024a: 25, f. 1-12, 18-21 (f).
References

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

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. & Webb, P. (2024a). Observation of the green hairy field spider Neoscona rufipalpis (Lucas, 1858) in South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 50: 25-27. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11526837 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

Karsch, F. (1879a). West-afrikanische Arachniden, gesammelt von Herrn Stabsarzt Dr. Falkenstein. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 329-373. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1930). Araignées du Congo recueillies au cours de l'expédition organisée par l'American Museum (1909-1915). Quatrième et dernière partie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37: 613-672. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11206 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900g). On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(4, 1899): 833-885, pl. 55-58. [published in April 1900, after Duncan, 1937] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884k). Arachnides recueillis à Khartoum (Soudan ègyptien) par M. Vossion, vice-consul de France et appartenant au Muséum de Paris. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9(1-2): 1-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908e). Exotisch-araneologisches. I. Amerikanische, hauptsächlich in Peru, Bolivien und Josemitetal in Californien gesammelte Spinnen. II. Spinnen aus Kamerun. III. Übersicht der bekannten Hysterocrates-Arten. IV. Zur Kenntnis der Aranea rufipalpis (Luc.). Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 61: 223-295. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-06-09 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2024a n/a
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a