Nephila clavipes

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Warm, wet rain forests .

Taxonomy

Ambiguous Synonyms

1. Nephila plumipes (Latreille, 1804)

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Aranea clavipes Linnaeus, 1767
2. Aranea longimana Fabricius, 1781
3. Aranea spinimobilis Linnaeus, 1767
4. Epeira clavipes Hahn, 1821
5. Epeira plumipes Walckenaer, 1842
6. Nephila concolor Mccook, 1894
7. Nephila thomensis Benoit, 1963
8. Nephila wilderi Mccook, 1894
9. Nephila wistariana Mccook, 1894

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Platnick N.I., 15-Jul-2004.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nephila

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 124 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

N. adelaidensis · N. agyrotoxa · N. ambigua · N. amoenula · N. angustata · N. antipodiana (Batik Golden Web Spider) · N. ardentipes · N. argentatum · N. argyrotoxa · N. aurelia · N. aurosa · N. baeri · N. borbonica · N. borbonica mossambicensis · N. brasiliensis · N. celebesiana · N. chrysogaster · N. clavata · N. clavipes (Golden Silk Orbweaver) · N. clavipes fasciculata · N. clavipes vespucea · N. comorana · N. concolor · N. constricta · N. cornuta · N. cothurnata · N. cruentata · N. cunninghamii · N. dasycnemis · N. dolabella · N. edulis · N. edwardsii · N. eremiana · N. fasciata · N. femoralis · N. femoralis carbonaria · N. femoralis obscurascens · N. fenestrata · N. fenestrata fuelleborni · N. fenestrata venusta · N. flagellans · N. fletcheri · N. furca · N. fuscipes · N. genualis · N. grayii · N. holmerae · N. hymenaea · N. imperatrix · N. imperialis · N. inaurata · N. inaurata madagascariensis · N. instigans · N. kuhlii · N. labillardierii · N. laurinae · N. laurinae novemmecklenburgiae · N. limbata · N. lineata · N. maculata · N. maculata annulipes · N. maculata piscatorum · N. madagascarensis (Golden Orb Weaver Spider) · N. madagascariensis · N. malabarensis · N. meridionalis · N. meridionalis hermitis · N. nigra · N. nigritarsis · N. obsoleta · N. ornata · N. pecuniosa · N. picta · N. pictithorax · N. pilipes (Golden Web Spider) · N. pilipes annulipes · N. pilipes fenestrata · N. pilipes flavornata · N. pilipes fuelleborni · N. pilipes hasselti · N. pilipes jalorensis · N. pilipes lauterbachi · N. pilipes malagassa · N. pilipes novaeguineae · N. pilipes piscatorum · N. pilipes walckenaeri · N. plumipes · N. procera · N. prolixa · N. rivulata · N. robusta · N. sarasinorum · N. senegalensis · N. senegalensis annulata · N. senegalensis bragantina · N. senegalensis calabarensis · N. senegalensis hildebrandti · N. senegalensis huebneri · N. senegalensis keyserlingi · N. senegalensis nyikae

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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. ENG url p. 390.
• 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. ENG url p. 149, p. 233, p. 234, p. 234, p. 252, p. 252, p. 253, p. 253, p. 255, p. 255, p. 282, p. 382, p. 382, p. 383, p. 83, p. 83.
• Archives n©erlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles, publi©es par la Soci©t© hollandaise des sciences © Harlem. La Haye [etc.]M. Nijhoff [etc.] FRE url p. 467.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 112, p. 165, p. 17, p. 182, p. 19, p. 20, p. 22, p. 251, p. 336, p. 347, p. 354, p. 39, p. 395, p. 450, p. 482, p. 73, p. 75, p. 91, p. 98.
• Distribution and origin of life in America, by Robert Francis Scharff. New York: Macmillan, 1912. ENG 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] ENG url p. 148.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. ENG url p. 46, p. 48, p. 48, p. 48.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. London, : Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London, 1904-1916. ENG url p. 719.
• Journal of Hymenoptera research. Washington, D.C.: International Society of Hymenopterists, [1992- ENG url p. 216, p. 240, p. 326, p. 335.
• Lehrbuch der zoologie, von F. S. Voigt. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1835-42. GER url p. 164.
• London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. London. url p. 420.
• Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology London. url p. 362.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 208, p. 99.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1848-[1958] ENG url p. 53, p. 53.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. ENG url p. 202.
• The Entomologist's monthly magazine. Oxford [etc.]Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Ltd. [etc.] ENG url p. 244.
• The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, by John Henry Comstock Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. ENG url p. 426, p. 428, p. 429, p. 430, p. 432.
• Tijdschrift voor entomologie. [Amsterdam]: Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging. MUL url p. 139, p. 355.
• Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: The Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1866- ENG url p. 273, p. 558, p. 871, p. 939.
• Zoologische Jahrbücher. Jena [Germany]: G. Fischer, GER url p. 164, p. 166.

Notes

Contributors

• American Plant Food Company, 7405 River Road, Bethesda MD.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 28, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.

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: 3572263
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ara-44187
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 11838

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