Nephila clavipes

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Warm, wet rain forests .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aranea clavipes Linnaeus • Aranea longimana Fabricius • Aranea spinimobilis Linnaeus • Epeira clavipes Hahn • Epeira plumipes Walckenaer • Nephila concolor Mccook • Nephila plumipes (Latreille • Nephila thomensis Benoit • Nephila wilderi Mccook • Nephila wistariana Mccook

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 05-Jan-2008

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nephila

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

N. antipodiana (Batik Golden Web Spider) · N. clavipes (Golden Silk Orbweaver) · N. madagascarensis (Golden Orb Weaver Spider) · N. pilipes (Golden Web Spider)

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Further Reading

• A naturalist in Brazil; the record of a year's observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people, by Konrad Guenther. .. translated by Bernard Miall. .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. url p. 390.
• A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse; assisted by Richard Hill. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851. url p. 240, p. 28.
• 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. / by Alexander Petrunkevitch. New York: Published by order of the Trustees, for sale at the Museum, 1911 url p. 381, p. 724, p. 741, p. 767.
• Abstract of proceedings of the South London Entomological & Natural History Society. London [Eng.]: South London Entomological and Natural History Society, [1885-1896] url p. 106, p. 45.
• American forests. Washington [etc.]American Forestry Association [etc.] url p. 522.
• American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits. By Henry C. McCook. .. [Philadelphia]The author, Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia, 1889-93. url p. 149, p. 234, p. 252, p. 253, p. 255, p. 282, p. 382, p. 383, p. 83.
• American spiders. New York, Van Nostrand[1949] url , , p. 185.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 392, p. 393, p. 393.
• Biology and ecology of ants of the genus Aphaenogaster in Florida / by John F. Carroll. 1975. url p. 137.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 187, p. 381, p. 724, p. 741, p. 767.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 90 1942 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 112, p. 165, p. 17, p. 182, figs. 16-27, page 19, map 2, page 20, p. 22, p. 251, index, p. 336-338, page 336, p. 347, p. 354, p. 39, p. 395, p. 450, p. 478, p. 482, p. 73, article start, page 75, p. 91, p. 94, p. 98.
• Distribution and origin of life in America, by Robert Francis Scharff New York, Macmillan, 1912 url p. 190.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] url p. 148, p. 148.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 46, p. 48, p. 48, p. 48.
• Guide to the study of insects. New York: H. Holt and company, 1889. url , p. 3.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. London, : Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London, 1904-1916. url p. 719.
• Journal of Hymenoptera research. Washington, D.C.: International Society of Hymenopterists, [1992- url p. 216, p. 240, p. 326, p. 335.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 412.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 208, p. 208, p. 602, p. 99.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 53, p. 53.
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• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 30.
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• Taxonomy, ethology, and ecology of Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae) in eastern North America / by Glavis Bernard Edwards, Jr. 1980. url p. 313.
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Notes

Contributors

• American Plant Food Company, 7405 River Road, Bethesda MD.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• SpidCat: The World Spider Catalog. Release date: January 7, 2008

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 09, 2008:

• Canadian Arachnologist Nearctic Spider Database, Canadian Arachnologist Nearctic Spider Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ara-013943
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 11838

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