Species Stiphidion facetum Simon, 1902

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• Stiphidion facetum Simon, E. 1902. Descriptions de quelques Arachnides nouveaux de la section des Cribellatés. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 15: 240-243 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP juvenile ♂ (Lehtinen (1967: 265) states that " the holotype was described as a juvenile male, but the full-grown palpus is only covered by the integument of the former molt stage"), Tasmania
  Comment: Information taken from Lehtinen (1967).
• Amarara fera Marples, B.J. 1959. The dictynid spiders of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 87: 333-361 [354 pl. 3, figs 8, 11].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OMNZ ♂,♀, New Zealand.

  Secondary source:

   Lehtinen, P.T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 [265].

Generic Combinations

• Stiphidion facetum Simon, 1902. —
  Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [974]
  Rainbow, W.J. 1911. A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319 [Vol 9 titled as published 1912-1913, but Part 2 published 2 Oct 1911] [125]
  Lehtinen, P.T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468 [265, 331; fig 112]
  Davies, V.T. 1988. Three new species of the spider genus Stiphidion (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Stiphidiidae) from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 265-271 [265-267 figs 1-6, 16, 20, 21, 24]
• Stiphidium facetum Simon, 1902. —
  Bonnet, P. 1958. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(4) 3027-4230 pp. [4170]
  Hickman, V.V. 1967. Some Common Spiders of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 112 pp. [36 figs 56-58, pl VI, 3-4]
  Forster, R.R. & Wilton, C.L. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Museum Bulletin. No. 4. 309 pp. [132-134 figs 397 (mislabelled as 387), 398-402]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from Tasmania northwards to south-eastern Queensland; only at higher altitudes in northern parts of range. Introduced to New Zealand.

Common Name References

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. [163] (as Stiphidium f.) (Crinoline Spider, Sombrero Spider, Hammock-web Spider)

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