Eriophora edax (Blackwall, 1863)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015878

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Described:

Distribution: USA to Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: National Museum of Natural History = United States National Museum (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA f (ENT 01968865) of Araneus unistriatus - (Sherwood, 2024b)
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (3204-117) of Aranea edax cauca - (Levi, 1971b)
Taxonomic References
Epeira edax Blackwall, 1863a: 30 (Dmf) Original description
Verrucosa unistriata McCook, 1894: 201, pl. 5, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015268]
Eriophora edax Banks, 1909a: 210
Araneus unistriatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 322
Araneus edax Petrunkevitch, 1911: 290
Aranea edax cauca Strand, 1916b: 111 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056548]
Eriophora edax Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 325, f. 205-207 (mf)
Araneus argyronotus Mello-Leitão, 1939g: 111, f. 14 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056546]
Eriophora edax Bryant, 1948a: 62, f. 7 (f)
Araniella geayi Caporiacco, 1954: 104, f. 24 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056549]
Eriophora edax Levi, 1971b: 296, f. 35-48 (mf, S of Eriophora edax cauca)
Araneus geayi Levi, 1974b: 293 (T from Araniella)
Eriophora edax Levi, 1991a: 177-178 (S of Araneus argyronotus and A. geayi)
Eriophora edax Levi, 2002: 541, f. 112-113 (f)
Eriophora edax Sherwood, 2024b: 202, f. 8A-C (f, S of Araneus unistriatus)
Eriophora edax Almaraz-López et al., 2025: 137, f. 5c-f (f)
References

Almaraz-López, A. C., García-Vázquez, A. A., García-García, M. Á. & Martínez-Martínez, L. (2025). Contribución al conocimiento de arañas «Arachnida: Araneae» en Putla Villa de Guerrero, Oaxaca, México. Tequio 7(19): 129-143. -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1909a). Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194-234. -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1863a). Description of newly discovered spiders captured in Rio de Janeiro, by John Gray and the Rev. Hamlet Clark (continued). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 11(61): 29-45. doi: 10.1080/00222936308681375 -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1948a). Some spiders from Acapulco, Mexico. Psyche, Cambridge 55(2): 55-77. doi: 10.1155/1948/45193 -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1954). Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 16: 45-193. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1971b). The ravilla group of the orbweaver genus Eriophora in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 77(3, 1970): 280-302. doi: 10.1155/1970/69275 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1974b). The orb-weaver genera Araniella and Nuctenea (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(6): 291-316. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2681 [[for the year see p. 9]] -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1939g). Some new argiopid spiders of British Guiana taken by Mr C. W. Richards from the nests of solitary wasps. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 11: 105-112. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2024b). Studies on spider nomenclature – I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(23): 189-235. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.23 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-12-03 New taxonomic reference entry Almaraz-López et al., 2025
2025-01-02 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood, 2024b
2025-01-02 Species synonymy Sherwood, 2024b Eriophora unistriata synonymized with Eriophora edax

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