• Stiphidion 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 species:

   Stiphidion facetum Simon, 1902 by original designation.
• Amarara 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 species:

   Amarara fera Marples, 1959 by original designation.

  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]; 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.
• Stiphidium 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] [subsequent misspelling; Followed by some subsequent authors but not by Lehtinen (1967) or Davies (1988); considered an invalid emendation (Platnick 2010)].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Stiphidium Simon, 1902 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  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]

Introduction

Spiders in the cribellate genus Stiphidion make messy hammock, or ‘sombrero’, webs that often adorn overhanging rocks, logs and buildings in south-eastern Australia. The type species, S. facetum, occurs from Tasmania north to south-eastern Queensland and in northern areas of New Zealand, where it is probably introduced (Forster & Wilton, 1973). The other three species are less widespread.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from Tasmania northwards to south-eastern Queensland.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

General References

Forster, R.R. & Wilton, C.L. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Museum Bulletin. No. 4. 309 pp. [138-132; fig. 387] (discuss relationships, web form; figure photograph of living S. facetum (as Stiphidium f.)

Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2008. A new subfamily of spiders with grate-shaped tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae). Records of the Australian Museum 60: 13-44 (discuss relationships)

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. [163; fig 40g] (web described and figured)

History of changes

• Stiphidion adornatum 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 [267 figs 10-12, 18, 23].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S252 ♀, Qld: Curtis Falls, Mt Tamborine National Park [27°55′S 153°12′E].
  Paratype(s) QM S253 2 ♂, data as holotype
  Comment: additional paratype males and females in QM, Brisbane; refer to Davies (1988) for details.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Tamborine and Lamington National Park areas of south-eastern Queensland only.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Stiphidion diminutum 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 [267 figs 7-9, 17, 22].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S243 ♀, Qld: Beauty Spot 98, Kroombit Tops [24°22′S 151°01′E].
  Paratype(s) QM S244 ♂, data as holotype
  Comment: additional paratype males and females in QM, Brisbane; refer to Davies (1988) for details.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Bulburin State Forest and Kroombit Tops areas of south-eastern Queensland only.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• 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)

History of changes

• Stiphidion raveni 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 [267-268 figs 13-15, 19, 25].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM S259 ♀, NSW: New England National Park [30°30′S 152°30′E].
  Paratype(s) QM S260 1 ♂, 1 j, NSW: New England National Park.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

History of changes