Eriophora nephiloides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015882

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil

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  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2f - (Levi, 1971b)
Taxonomic References
Epeira musiva van Hasselt, 1888: 184, pl. 5, f. 5-7 (Df; nomen oblitum per Levi, 1991a: 179) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055059]
Epeira nephiloides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 32, pl. 7, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description
Epeira nephiloides Keyserling, 1893: 222, pl. 11, f. 165 (f)
Epeira nephiloides McCook, 1894: 190, pl. 14, f. 5-6, pl. 22, f. 3 (f)
Aranea nephiloides F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 511, pl. 48, f. 22 (f)
Eriophora nephiloides Banks, 1909a: 210
Araneus musivus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 305
Araneus nephiloides Petrunkevitch, 1911: 306
Araneus acacesiiformis Caporiacco, 1954: 108, f. 27-27a (Df; immature per Levi, 1991a: 177) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055058]
Eriophora nephiloides Levi, 1971b: 298, f. 49-58 (Dm, f)
Eriophora nephiloides Levi, 1991a: 177, 179 (S of of Araneus acacesiiformis and A. musivus)
Eriophora nephiloides Pantoja et al., 2025a: 5, f. 13A-B (m)
References

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

Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1888). Araneae exoticae quas collegit, pro Museo Lugdunensi, Dr H. Ten Kate Jr. in Guyanâ Hollandicâ (Suriname). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 31: 165-200. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. 4. Band. II. Hälfte. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, pp. 209-377, pl. 10-19. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- 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. (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

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

Pantoja, P., Xavier, C., Serrão, L. F. B., Favacho, C. A. C., Saturnino, R. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2025a). Checklist of spider species in a urban forest fragment in the Brazilian Amazon with 16 new local records and 3 new records from Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais 20(1, e2025-1012): 1-29. doi: 10.46357/bcnaturais.v20i1.1012 -- 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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-05-15 New taxonomic reference entry Pantoja et al., 2025a
2025-05-15 Species distribution update Pantoja et al., 2025a Old value

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