Perilla teres Thorell, 1895

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014060

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Described:

Distribution: Myanmar, Malaysia (peninsula), Vietnam

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f - (Kuntner, 2002)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j of Perilla cylindrogaster - (Kuntner, 2002)
Taxonomic References
Perilla teres Thorell, 1895b: 196 (Dmf) Original description
Perilla cylindrogaster Simon, 1909e: 110 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014059]
Araneus elongatus Yin, Wang & Xie, 1989: 331, f. 5-9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014857]
Araneus elongatus Yin et al., 1997d: 137, f. 52a-e (f)
Araneus elongatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 238, f. 137L-N, 147O (f)
Perilla teres Kuntner, 2002: 283, f. 1-9 (mf, S of Perilla cylindrogaster)
Perilla teres Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 173, f. 14A-H (mf)
Perilla teres Kuntner, Coddington & Schneider, 2009: 1453, f. 2C (f)
Perilla teres Li et al., 2026: 102, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3D (f, S of Araneus elongatus)
References

Kuntner, M. (2002). The placement of Perilla (Araneae, Araneidae) with comments on araneid phylogeny. Journal of Arachnology 30(2): 281-287. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0281:TPOPAA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24(2): 147-217. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Schneider, J. M. (2009). Intersexual arms race? Genital coevolution in nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae). Evolution 63: 1451-1463. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.x -- Show included taxa

Li, X., Wan, H. C., Luo, J. & Liu, K. K. (2026). Araneus elongatus Yin, Wang & Xie, 1989 is a junior synonym of Perilla teres Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Araneidae). The Indochina Entomologist 2(9): 101-107. doi: 10.70590/ice.2026.02.09 -- 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

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F. & Xie, L. P. (1989). Two new species of genus Araneus in China (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Natural Science of Hunan Normal University 12: 330-332. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhu, M. S., Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J. & Bao, Y. H. (1997d). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Science Press, Beijing, 460 pp. -- 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
2026-03-18 Type repository inserted Kuntner, 2002
2026-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Li et al., 2026

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