World Spider Catalog

Genus: Araneus Clerck, 1757 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Araneus obscurtus Urquhart, 1893

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015072

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Tasmania)

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: f (whereabouts of type material unknown, unidentifiable) - (Framenau, 2019)

Taxonomic References

Epeira obscurta Urquhart, 1893b: 116 (Df) Original description

Araneus obscuratus Bonnet, 1955: 554 (invalid emendation)

Araneus obscurtus Framenau, 2019: 22 (nomen dubium)

References

Bonnet, P. (1955). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) [1re partie: A-B]. Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1-918. -- Show included taxa

Framenau, V. W. (2019). Generic and family transfers, and nomina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions. Evolutionary Systematics 3: 1-27. doi: 10.3897/evolsyst.3.33454 -- Show included taxa

Urquhart, A. T. (1893b). On new species of Tasmanian Araneae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 94-130. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-04-23	Taxon is nomen dubium	Framenau, 2019		Araneus obscurtus (Urquhart, 1893) declared a nomen dubium
2019-04-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Framenau, 2019