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Genus: Neogea Levi, 1983 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Neogea nocticolor (Thorell, 1887)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016686

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Described:

Distribution: India, Myanmar, China, Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra)

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Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 2f (A 3418) - (Levi, 1983)
Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy j of Gea guttata - (Levi, 1983)
Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f of Gea lugens - (Levi, 1983)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f of Gea diadema - (Levi, 1983)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 2f (m as holotype, but not designated as lectotype) of Argiope lalita - (Levi, 1983)

Taxonomic References

Gea nocticolor Thorell, 1887: 170 (Df) Original description

Gea guttata Thorell, 1890a: 107 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058427]

Gea lugens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899b: 520, pl. 29, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058429]

Gea diadema Hogg, 1919: 92, pl. 9, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058426]

Argiope lalita Sherriffs, 1928: 186, f. 3-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058428]

Argiope lalita Tikader, 1982a: 113, f. 211-214 (f)

Neogea nocticolor Levi, 1983: 331, f. 391-392, 398-406 (mf, T from Gea, S of Argiope lalita, Gea diadema, G. guttata and G. lugens)

Neogea nocticolor Chen, Li & Yang, 2025: 43, f. 1A-B, 2A-F, 3A-F (f)

References

Chen, R., Li, G. Z. & Yang, Z. Z. (2025). A new record species of Neogea Levi, 1983 from China (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 34(1): 43-48. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2025.01.008 -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1919). Spiders collected in Korinchi, West Sumatra by Messrs H. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 8(3): 81-106, pl. 7-12. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1983). The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(5): 247-338. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1899b). On some new species of exotic Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 67(2): 518-532, pl. 29-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1899.tb06872.x -- Show included taxa

Sherriffs, W. R. (1928). South Indian Arachnology. Part III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 2(8): 177-192. doi: 10.1080/00222932808672866 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1887). Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5-417. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 28: 5-421. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982a). Part 1. Family Araneidae (= Argiopidae). Typical orb-weavers. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-293. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Chen, Li & Yang, 2025
2025-07-14	Species distribution update	Chen, Li & Yang, 2025	Old value