Taxon details


Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016770]
  • Distribution: Cape Verde, Africa to India
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material Aranea danensis Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Epeira kerstenii Gerstäcker, 1873, (2367)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Epeira melanopa Gerstäcker, 1873, (2366)
  • Holotype: Museum Lübeck, Germany; type material destroyed 1942; m of Neoscona triangula mensamontella (Nentwig et al., 2019)
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (1978.11.1.39) of Neoscona larbada (Roberts, 1983)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); m (A0003422) of Epeira annulata Lenz, 1891
  • Allotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1978.11.1.40) of Neoscona larbada (Roberts, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Epeira nocturna Vinson, 1863: 161, 309, pl. 4, f. 3 (Df; preoccupied by Linnaeus, 1758, see Callilepis nocturna).
Epeira triangula Keyserling, 1864: 98, pl. 5, f. 12-14 (Dmf).
Epeira kerstenii Gerstaecker, 1873: 492 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060934].
Epeira melanopa Gerstaecker, 1873: 493 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060946].
Epeira obscura Blackwall, 1877: 15 (Df; preoccupied by Wider, 1834, see Zilla diodia).
Epeira locuples Butler, 1880: 732, pl. 58, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060943].
Epeira cerviniventris Simon, 1884k: 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060908].
Epeira annulata Lenz, 1891: 177, pl. 2, f. 18 (Dm; preoccupied by Thorell, 1859, see Trichonephila senegalensis annulata).
Araneus haploscapus Pocock, 1898c: 209, pl. 8, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060927].
Aranea sub-bituberculata Thorell, 1899: 47 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060986].
Aranea danensis Strand, 1906b: 620 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060916].
Aranea annulata mensamontella Strand, 1907a: 534 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016771].
Araneus fernandensis Simon, 1907d: 292, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060921].
Aranea annulella Strand, 1907n: 623 (replacement name for Epeira annulata Lenz) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060902].
Aranea annulella mensamontella Strand, 1907n: 623.
Aranea kersteni Strand, 1908g: 406.
Aranea kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 111 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060935].
Aranea formicae Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 114 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060922].
Aranea cruciferoides Tullgren, 1910: 165, pl. 4, f. 116 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060915].
Aranea melanopa Strand, 1913a: 372.
Araneus katangae Giltay, 1935b: 7, f. 4-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060933].
Neoscona platyparomma Caporiacco, 1939a: 343, f. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060966].
Neoscona platyparomma Caporiacco, 1940c: 822 (Df).
Neoscona danensis Caporiacco, 1941b: 79 (T from Araneus).
Aranea nocturnella Roewer, 1942a: 811 (replacement name for Epeira nocturna Vinson) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060959].
Aranea platyparoma Roewer, 1942a: 812.
Araneus nigrostriatus Caporiacco, 1947c: 174, f. 31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060957].
Araneus nigrostriatus nigrovittatus Caporiacco, 1947c: 175 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060958].
Neoscona cruciferoides Caporiacco, 1949a: 414 (T from Araneus).
Neoscona dauensis Caporiacco, 1949a: 416, f. 58 (f, lapsus for N. danensis).
Afraranea triangula Grasshoff, 1980: 397, f. 1-4 (mf, removed from S of Neoscona punctigera, rejecting Simon, 1895a: 828 (sub Araneus lugubris), S of Araneus annulellus, A. cerviniventris, A. kibonotensis, A. nigrostriatus, A. n. nigrovittatus, A. nocturnellus and Neoscona cruciferoides).
Neoscona larbada Roberts, 1983: 269, f. 192-198, 209-210 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060940].
Neoscona triangula Grasshoff, 1986: 84, f. 124-135 (mf, S of Araneus fernandensis, A. formicae, A. haploscapus, A. katangae, A. locuples, A. melanopus, A. platyparomma, A. subbituberculatus, Neoscona danensis, N. kersteni (removed from S of N. rufipalpis, rejecting Thorell, 1899: 49, sub Aranea semiannulata) and N. larbada).
Neoscona triangula Saaristo, 2010: 45, f. 4.39-42, 51 (mf).
Neoscona triangula Nentwig et al., 2019: 32 (S of Neoscona triangula mensamontella).
Neoscona triangula Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022a: 10, f. 1-9, 16-17 (f).
Neoscona triangula Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 19, p. 19: 8 f., p. 20: 3 f. (f).
References

Blackwall, J. (1877). A list of spiders captured in the Seychelles Islands, by Professor E. Perceval Wright, M. D., F. L. S.; with descriptions of species supposed to be new to arachnologists. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (2) 3(1): 1-22, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Butler, A. G. (1880). On Arachnida from the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47(4, 1879): 729-734, pl. 58. [published in April 1880, after Duncan, 1937] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02709.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1939a). Arachnida. In: Missione biologica nel paese dei Borana. Raccolte zoologiche. Reale Accademia d'Italia, Roma 3, 303-385. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. 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

Gerstaecker, A. (1873). Arachnoidea. In: Die Gliederthier-Fauna des Sansibar-Gebietes. Nach dem von Dr. O. Kersten während der v. d. Decken'schen Ost-Afrikanischen Expedition im Jahre 1862 und von C. Cooke auf der Insel Sansibar im Jahre 1864 gesammelten Material. C. F. Winter, Leipzig, pp. 461-503, pl. 18 (Araneae: pp. 473-503). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10149 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Giltay, L. (1935b). Notes arachnologiques africaines. VI. Quelques araignées des environs d'Elisabethville (Katanga). Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 11(16): 1-21. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1980). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Araneidae-Argiopinae, Araneidae-Araneinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94(2): 387-409. 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

Jones, A. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2022a). Notes on the red-spot hairy field spider Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) in South Africa. SANSA Newsletter 41: 10-13. 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

Lenz, H. (1891). Spinnen von Madagascar und Nossibé. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 9: 161-182, pl. 1-2. 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

Pocock, R. I. (1898c). The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(9): 197-226, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939808678036 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. 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

Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908g). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Argiopiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 16: 329-440. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1913a). Arachnida. I. In: Schubotz, H. (ed.) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907-1908, unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig. 4(Zool. 2), 325-474. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7048 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. 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

Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a
2022-06-08 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a (Old value)
2022-04-26 New taxonomic reference entry Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022a n/a
2021-05-25 Species distribution update Grasshoff, 1986 n/a (Old value)
2019-09-16 New taxonomic reference entry Nentwig et al., 2019 n/a
2019-09-16 Species synonymy Nentwig et al., 2019 Neoscona triangula mensamontella synonymized with Neoscona triangula