Larinia fusiformis (Thorell, 1877)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016301

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Described:

Distribution: India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy f - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
  • Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy f of Larinia lutescens - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j of Larinia quadrinotata - (Grasshoff, 1970b)
Taxonomic References
Meta fusiformis Thorell, 1877b: 431 (Df) Original description
Lipocrea fusiformis Thorell, 1878b: 6
Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1889i: 340 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057814]
Larinia lutescens Thorell, 1898: 342 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057813]
Larinia quadrinotata Simon, 1909e: 105 (Df)
Larinopa fusiformis Grasshoff, 1970b: 231, f. 15a-b, 16a-e (Dm, f, T from Larinia, S of Larinia lutescens and L. quadrinotata)
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 1989: 35, f. 8-14 (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Okuma et al., 1993: 23, f. 20C-D (f)
Larinia fusiformis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 612, f. 384a-e, 385a-b (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Chang & Tso, 2004: 28, f. 5-8 (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2007c: 73, f. 202, 610-613 (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, 2009: 447, f. 189-192 (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023: 56, f. 15-18 (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Suzuki et al., 2023: 48, f. 7A (m)
Lipocrea fusiformis Zhang et al., 2025k: 228, f. 3A-C, 12A-F, 13A-D, 14A-F (mf)
Larinia fusiformis Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2025b: 88 (T from Lipocrea, by S of the genus)
Larinia fusiformis Baba & Himuro, 2026: 78, f. 6-7 (m)
References

Baba, Y. G. & Himuro, C. (2026). Spiders collected using pest monitoring traps on Tsuken Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Kishidaia 128: 77-81. -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. -- Show included taxa

Chang, Y. H. & Tso, I. M. (2004). Six newly recorded spiders of the genera Araneus, Larinia, Eriophora, Thanatus, Portia and Dolichognatha (Araneae: Araneidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae and Tetragnathidae) from Taiwan. Acta Arachnologica 53(1): 27-33. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.53.27 -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1970b). Die Tribus Mangorini. I. Die Gattungen Eustala, Larinia s. str., Larinopa n. gen. (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae-Araneinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(3/4): 209-234. -- Show included taxa

Okuma, C., Kamal, N. Q., Hirashima, Y., Alam, M. Z. & Ogata, K. (1993). Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh). Japan International Cooperation Agency Project Publication, 1, 93 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889i). Arachnides de l'Himalaya, recueillis par MM. Oldham et Wood-Mason, et faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum. Première partie. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, part II (Natural History) 58(4): 334-344. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909e). Etude sur les arachnides du Tonkin (1re partie). Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 42: 69-147. -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y., Noguchi, S., Osaki, H. & Tatsuta, H. (2023). Spiders (Araneae) collected from Kuchino-shima, Gaja-jima and Suwanosejima Islands, the Tokara Islands, Japan. Kagoshima Prefectural Museum Research Report 42(2022): 41-56. [[publ. March 2023]] -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (1989). Japanese spiders of the genus Larinia Simon (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 38(2): 31-47. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.38.31 -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2007c). An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2009). Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A., Into, T. & Petcharad, B. (2023). A new species of Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae) discovered in rice fields in Thailand. Acta Arachnologica 72(1): 55-58. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.72.55 -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A., Into, T. & Petcharad, B. (2025b). On the synonymization of Lipocrea and Lariniaria with Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae) using molecular systematics. Acta Arachnologica 74(2): 85-89, Suppl. 1-2. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.74.85 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1877b). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 10: 341-637. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1878b). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 5-317. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1898). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXX. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. II. Retitelariae et Orbitelariae. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 39: 271-378. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. S., Zhang, C. W., Xing, Y. Q., Yu, H. & Mi, X. Q. (2025k). A survey of the spider genus Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 (Araneae, Araneidae) from Guiyang City, southwest China: an integrated morphological and molecular approach. ZooKeys 1255: 207-237. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1255.158340 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Baba & Himuro, 2026
2026-01-20 Transferred to other genus after syn. gen Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2025b Transferred from Lipocrea Thorell, 1878 to Larinia Simon, 1874 (genus synonymy)
2025-10-12 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang et al., 2025k
2024-08-29 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki et al., 2023
2023-07-03 New taxonomic reference entry Tanikawa, Into & Petcharad, 2023

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