Taxon details


Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014455]
  • Distribution: India, China to Indonesia (Moluccas)
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Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Taxonomic references
Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895a: 785 (Df).
Phonognatha vicitra Sherriffs, 1928: 183, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014069].
Acusilas coccineus Uyemura, 1939b: 142, f. a-f (f).
Acusilas coccineus Yaginuma, 1960: 59, f. 58 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Namkung, 1964: 37, f. 23 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Yaginuma, 1971: 59, f. 58 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Murphy & Murphy, 1983b: 117, f. 3-6 (f).
Acusilas gentingensis Murphy & Murphy, 1983b: 122, f. 18-20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014457].
Acusilas coccineus Hu, 1984: 88, f. 78.1-2 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Yaginuma, 1986a: 116, f. 61.2 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Chikuni, 1989b: 75, f. 40 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Chen & Zhang, 1991: 112, f. 106.1-3 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Yin et al., 1997d: 109, f. 35a-d (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 230, f. 133A-D, 145M (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Namkung, 2002: 256, f. 19.18a-b (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Kim & Kim, 2002: 177, f. 1, 70-71, 156-157 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Namkung, 2003: 257, f. 19.17a-b (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Shin, 2007: 163, f. 11A-H (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Tanikawa, 2007c: 90, f. 279-281, 746-747 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 176, f. 17B-D (m).
Acusilas coccineus Schmidt & Scharff, 2008: 18, f. 7A-B, 10A-D, 11A-B, 12A, 13A, 18A-B, 19A-E, 20A-B, 21A-B (mf, S).
Acusilas coccineus Tanikawa, 2009: 461, f. 317-318 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Yin et al., 2012: 587, f. 282a-d (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Kim & Lee, 2012b: 12, f. 3A-C, pl. 1 (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 41, 4 f. (mf).
Acusilas coccineus Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 11, f. 48-52, 176 (f).
Acusilas coccineus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018c: 391, f. 1A-E, 2A-G (mf, S of Phonognatha vicitra).
References

Baba, Y. G. & Tanikawa, A. (2015). The handbook of spiders. Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Tokyo, 112 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 310 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kim, J. M. & Kim, J. P. (2002). A revisional study of family Araneidae Dahl, 1912 (Arachnida, Araneae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 18: 171-266. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kim, S. T. & Lee, S. Y. (2012b). Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Araneid spiders. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(16): 1-146. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24(2): 147-217. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. & Murphy, F. (1983b). The orb weaver genus Acusilas (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 115-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (1964). Spiders from Chungjoo, Korea. Atypus 33-34: 31-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2002). The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp. [2001 in the book, but publ. in 2002 per Platnick] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Namkung, J. (2003). The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). On the araneid fauna (Araneae: Araneidae) of the tea estates of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 67(1): 1-67. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018c). Phonognatha vicitra Sherriffs, 1928—a taxonomic misidentification of the orb-weaving spider Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4434(2): 391-395. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.12 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, J. B. & Scharff, N. (2008). A taxonomic revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Acusilas Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 39(1): 1-38. doi:10.1163/187631208788784147 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherriffs, W. R. (1928). South Indian Arachnology. Part III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 2(8): 177-192. doi:10.1080/00222932808672866 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Shin, H. K. (2007). A systematic study of the araneid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in Korea (1). Korean Arachnology 23: 127-171. 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

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2007c). An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae. Arachnological Society of Japan, 121 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2009). Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Uyemura, T. (1939b). [Habit and description of Acusilas coccineus]. Acta Arachnologica 4: 139-145. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1960). Spiders of Japan in colour. Hoikusha, Osaka, 186 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1971). Spiders of Japan in colour (enlarged and revised edition). Hoikusha, Osaka (for 1969), 197 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhu, M. S., Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J. & Bao, Y. H. (1997d). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Science Press, Beijing, 460 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018c n/a
2018-06-15 Species synonymy Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018c Acusilas vicitrus synonymized with Acusilas coccineus
2017-10-27 New taxonomic reference entry Baba & Tanikawa, 2015 n/a
2017-02-08 New taxonomic reference entry Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 n/a
2017-02-08 Species distribution update Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 n/a (Old value)
2015-03-31 New taxonomic reference entry Kim & Lee, 2012b n/a