Nephila cornuta (Pallas, 1772)

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana

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Taxonomic References
Aranea cornuta Pallas, 1772: 44, pl. 3, f. 13 (Df) Original description
Aranea longimana Fabricius, 1781: 536 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065285]
Aranea longimana Olivier, 1789: 232
Nephila cornuta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901b: 325, pl. 7, f. 5 (f)
Nephila (Trichonephila) clavipes cornuta Dahl, 1912a: 46, 75 (S of Aranea longimana, Nephila fasciculata [revalidated by Archer, 1958: 3, see Trichonephila clavipes fasciculata] and N. sulphurea [revalidated by Levi, 1988: 482, see Alpaida sulphurea)])
Nephila (Nothonephila) cornuta Archer, 1958: 3, f. 3-6 (Dm, f, elevated from subspecies of Nephila clavipes)
References

Archer, A. F. (1958). Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 4. American Museum Novitates 1922: 1-21. -- Show included taxa

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

Fabricius, J. C. (1781). Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphos in adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburgi and Kilonii, 1, 1-552 (Araneae, pp. 536-549). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.11658 -- Show included taxa

Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.82248 -- Show included taxa

Pallas, P. S. (1772). Spicilegia zoologica. Tomus 1. Continens quadrupedium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, molluscorum aliorumque marinorum fasciculos decem. Berolini 1(9), 44-50. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901b). On a collection of spiders from the Bahama Islands made by J. L. Bonhote, Esq., with characters of a new genus and species of Mygalomorphae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 7(40): 322-332. doi: 10.1080/00222930108678478 -- Show included taxa

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