World Spider Catalog

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

Nephila pilipes malagassa Strand, 1907

SUBSPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany type material destroyed 1944 - (Renner, 1988b)

Taxonomic References

Nephila maculata malagassa Strand, 1907a: 533 (Df) Original description

Nephila maculata malagassa Strand, 1907n: 609 (Df)

Nephila malagassa Dahl, 1912a: 35 (probable S of Neriene maculata)

Nephila pilipes malagassa Nentwig et al., 2019: 41 (nomen dubium)

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

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019). Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29-51. doi: 10.30963/aramit5809 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-09-17	Taxon is nomen dubium	Nentwig et al., 2019		Nephila pilipes malagassa Strand, 1907 declared a nomen dubium
2019-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Nentwig et al., 2019