Taxon details


Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-07-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016725]
  • Distribution: Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius. Introduced to the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela to Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1978.11.1.42) of Neoscona seca (Roberts, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Epeira morelii Vinson, 1863: 166, 309, pl. 4, f. 4 (Dm).
Epeira lanuginosa Lenz, 1886: 389 (Df).
Epeira moreli Simon, 1886g: 370 (Df).
Epeira theisii Keyserling, 1893: 246, pl. 12, f. 184 (mf, misidentified).
Epeira theisii McCook, 1894: 166, pl. 6, f. 8-9 (mf, misidentified).
Araneus neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 305 (Dmf).
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926a: 56, f. 2-3 (Dmf).
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926c: 15, f. 5-7 (m).
Cubanella recta Franganillo, 1930: 22, f. 8 (Dmf).
Neoscona neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 324.
Neoscona neotheis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 21, f. 31 (f).
Neoscona nidicola Franganillo, 1936c: 76, f. 34 (f).
Neoscona recta Franganillo, 1936c: 77, f. 35-36.
Neoscona nidicola Bryant, 1940: 511.
Neoscona neotheis Berman & Levi, 1971: 490, f. 12, 91-100, 130-131 (Tmf from Araneus, S).
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1980: 407 (removed mf from S of N. theis).
Neoscona seca Roberts, 1983: 275, f. 202-204, 213-214 (Dm).
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1986: 56, f. 71-78 (mf, S).
Neoscona neotheis Barrion et al., 1988a: 394, f. 3a-g, 9c (f).
Neoscona moreli Levi, 1993a: 232, f. 18-21 (mf).
Neoscona moreli Saaristo, 2010: 41, f. 4.32-36, 53 (mf).
Neoscona moreli Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022b: 23, f. 1-19 (f, m habitus).
Neoscona moreli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 6, p. 6: 3 f., p. 7: 8 f. (f).
References

Barrion, A. A., Barrion, A. T., Casal, C. V., Taylo, L. D. & Amalin, D. M. (1988a). The orb-weaving spiders genus Neoscona (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines. The Philippine Agricultural Scientist 69: 385-409. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berman, J. D. & Levi, H. W. (1971). The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141(8): 465-500. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1926a). Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 9: 42-68. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1926c). Arácnidos de Cuba: Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Habana, pp. 1-24. (possibly reprinted from "Cuba Contemporania 41(161)") download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1930). Arácnidos de Cuba: Mas arácnidos nuevos de la Isla de Cuba. Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas 1: 47-99. [reprinted separately, pp. 1-55; only reprint seen and cited] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1936c). Los arácnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936b). New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 863: 1-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1980). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Araneidae-Argiopinae, Araneidae-Araneinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94: 387-409. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1986). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jones, A. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2022b). Notes on the grass orb-web spider Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 42: 23-26. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lenz, H. (1886). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna Madagascars. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Zeitschrift für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 1(2): 379-408, pl. 10. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1993a). American Neoscona and corrections to previous revisions of Neotropical orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 99(2-3, 1992): 221-239. doi:10.1155/1992/93912 download pdf -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022b n/a
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a