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Genus: Polyboea Thorell, 1895 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Polyboea vulpina Thorell, 1895

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019775

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Described:

Distribution: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore

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Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1jf - (Sankaran et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Polyboea vulpina Thorell, 1895b: 229 (Dj) Original description

Polyboea vulpina Workman, 1896: 97, pl. 97 (Dmf)

Polyboea vulpina Sierwald, 1997: 401, f. 88-90, 97-101 (mf)

Polyboea vulpina Sen & Sureshan, 2021a: 56, f. 1-4 (f)

Polyboea vulpina Sankaran et al., 2026: 19, f. 6, 73-88 (mf)

References

Sankaran, P. M., Abraham, A., Williams, S. H. & Asima, A. (2026). New data on Indian nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 5757(1): 1-25. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Sen, S. & Sureshan, P. M. (2021a). New record of nursery web spider, Polyboea vulpina Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India with a key to Indian species. Romanian Journal of Biology - Zoology 65(1-2, 2020): 55-59. [[publ. in Feb. 2021]] -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1997). Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae). Journal of Arachnology 25: 361-407. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-02-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran et al., 2026
2021-02-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Sen & Sureshan, 2021a
2021-02-20	Species distribution update	Sen & Sureshan, 2021a	Old value