Species Backobourkia heroine (L. Koch, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epeira heroine Koch, L. 1871. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1(1-2) 1-104 pp. [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMNS ♀ (Held in the collection of Königliches Naturalienkabinett, Stuttgart, Germany (now SMNS), destroyed in WWII), Neuholland (= Australia).
• Epeira annulata Keyserling, E. 1886. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg Vol. 2 87-152 pp. [141].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMV 1866.I.2 ♀, Sydney, NSW [33°53′S 151°13′E].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 4235–6 2 ♀ (labelled “transmarina L. K., Epeira annulata, Keys.”), Australia; ZMH 1 ♀ (Rack (1961) - catalog 221), Australia; ZMH 4 immature, Sydney, NSW; BMNH 1915.3.5.1238 1 ♀, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Framenau, V.W., Dupérré, N.T., Blackledge, A. & Vink C.J. 2010. Systematics of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 68: 79-111 [92].
• Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, A.T. 1891. On new species of Tasmanian Araneidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1890: 236-253 [237] [nomen dubium].

  Secondary source:

   Framenau, V.W. 2019. Generic and family transfers, and nomina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions. Evolutionary Systematics 3 2019: 1-27 [23].

 

Generic Combinations

• Backobourkia heroine (L. Koch, 1871). —
  Framenau, V.W., Dupérré, N.T., Blackledge, A. & Vink C.J. 2010. Systematics of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 68: 79-111

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

More common in the western states of Australia; New Caledonia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Mar-2023	ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895	21-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		19-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		22-Aug-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)