World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Megaraneus Lawrence, 1968 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01514

type Megaraneus campbelli Lawrence, 1968; gender masculine

In synonymy:

Megaraneus angolensis (Brito Capello, 1866) = Megaraneus gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) (Simon, 1907d: 286, sub Cyrtophora)

Megaraneus basilissa (Thorell, 1899, T from Caerostris) = Megaraneus gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) (Grasshoff, 1984: 764)

Megaraneus campbelli Lawrence, 1968 = Megaraneus gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) (Grasshoff, 1984: 764)

Megaraneus chinchoxensis (Karsch, 1879) = Megaraneus gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) (Simon, 1907d: 286, sub Cyrtophora)

Megaraneus gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) | | Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gabon, Rep. Congo, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016402 TYPE SPECIES

Epeira gabonensis Lucas, 1858: 420, pl. 12, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Epeira angolensis Brito Capello, 1866: 79, pl. 2, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064250]

Epeira chinchoxensis Karsch, 1879a: 333 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064251]

Aranea basilissa Thorell, 1899: 44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056895]

Cyrtophora angolensis Pocock, 1900g: 853

Cyrtophora gabonensis Simon, 1907d: 286

Cyrtophora gabonensis Simon, 1907d: 286 (S of Cyrtophora angolensis and C. chinchoxensis, both removed from S of C. citricola, rejecting Simon, 1895a: 775)

Caerostris basilissa Roewer, 1942a: 888

Megaraneus campbelli Lawrence, 1968: 110, f. 1a-e, 2a-e, g (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056896]

Megaraneus gabonensis Grasshoff, 1984: 763 (T from Cyrtophora, S of Caerostris basilissa and Megaraneus campbelli)

Megaraneus gabonensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 48, p. 47: 1 f., p. 48: 6 f. (f)

Megaraneus gabonensis Čandek et al., 2025: 10, f. 1A-B, 4A-E, 5A-D, 6A-D (mf)