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Genus: Nephila Leach, 1815 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Nephila constricta Karsch, 1879

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013948

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Described:

Distribution: Tropical Africa

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Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Nephila constricta Karsch, 1879, (3213) -

Taxonomic References

Epeira chrysogaster Lucas, 1858: 411 (f; misidentified per Simon, 1887a: 270)

Nephila maculata Karsch, 1879a: 338 (f; misidentified per Simon, 1887a: 270)

Nephila constricta Karsch, 1879e: 834, pl. 11, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Nephila lucasi Simon, 1887a: 270 (Df, new name for Epeira chrysogaster sensu Lucas, 1858 and Nephila maculata sensu Karsch, 1879) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065283]

Nephila baculigera Thorell, 1899: 36 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065284]

Nephila (Poecilonephila) constricta Dahl, 1912a: 42, 55 (S of Nephila baculigera and N. lucasi)

Nephila constricta Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 166, f. 7D-E (m)

Nephila constricta Kuntner, Coddington & Schneider, 2009: 1452, f. 1A, 4E (mf)

References

Dahl, F. (1912a). Seidenspinne und Spinneseide. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6(1): 1-90. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19120060101 -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879a). West-afrikanische Arachniden, gesammelt von Herrn Stabsarzt Dr. Falkenstein. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 329-373. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879e). West-afrikanische Myriopoden und Arachniden. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 825-837. -- 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

Lucas, H. (1858). Aptères. In: Thomson, J. (ed.) Voyage au Gabon. Archives Entomologiques de M. J. Thomson 2, 377-445, pl. 12-13. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.11206 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887a). Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7: 261-276. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa

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