Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Arachnura

Arachnura higginsi (L. Koch, 1872)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-12-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014643]
  • Distribution: Australia
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, UK; f (lost) (Castanheira et al., 2019c)
  • Paratype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material (cotype) destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
Taxonomic references
Epeira higginsii L. Koch, 1872a: 120, pl. 11, f. 1 (Df).
Arachnura higginsi Simon, 1895a: 776, f. 848.
Arachnura feredayi Hickman, 1926: 182, pl. 15, f. 7 (Dm; misidentified per Castanheira et al., 2019c: 150).
Arachnura higginsi Butler, 1933: 279, pl. 17, f. 1.
Arachnura feredayi Dondale, 1966: 1160, f. 1G-J (f; misidentified per Castanheira et al., 2019c: 150).
Arachnura higginsi Hickman, 1967: 60, f. 104-105 (f, Dm).
Arachnura higginsi Uyemura, 1976a: 13, f. 7 (f).
Arachnura higginsi Uyemura, 1976b: 23, f. 1.1, 3, 5, 2.3-5, 3.2, 4.2 (f).
Arachnura higginsii Davies, 1988b: 320, f. 41 (f, Dm).
Arachnura higginsii Castanheira et al., 2019c: 155, f. 1C, 5A-E, 6A-D, 7, 8A-D (mf).
References

Butler, L. S. G. (1933). The common and conspicuous spiders of Melbourne. Victoria Naturalist 49: 271-292. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Castanheira, P. de S., Didham, R. K., Vink, C. J. & Framenau, V. W. (2019c). The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae, Arachnura) in Australia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 4706(1): 147-170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4706.1.6 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Davies, V. T. (1988b). An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 273-332. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi:10.1071/ZO9661157 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1926). Notes on Tasmanian Araneidae (with descriptions of a new species). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1925: 171-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Uyemura, T. (1976a). On the tailed-spiders (Arachnura) from Formosa. Atypus 66: 3-14. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Uyemura, T. (1976b). On the tailed spiders (genus Arachnura) from north Borneo, Malaysia. Atypus 67: 23-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-12-07 New taxonomic reference entry Castanheira et al., 2019c n/a
2019-12-07 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2019-12-07 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)