Species Trichonephila edulis (Labillardière, 1799)
Australian Golden Orb-weaving Spider
- Aranea edulis Labillardière, J. 1799. Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante. Paris Vol. 2 pp. 240-241. [239].
Type data:
Status unknown, (not found in MNHP, lost), New Caledonia. - Nephila adelaidensis Hogg, H.R. 1910. Two new Nephilae from South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 59-62 [61].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA N1985228 1♀, Australia, South Australia. - Nephila eremiana Hogg, H.R. 1896. Araneidae. pp. 309-356 in, Report of the Work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Pt 2 Zoology. Melbourne : Melville, Mullen and Slade. [318].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV K-933 1♀, Goyder's River, Bagots Creek, camps 11 . 23 . 25, Oodnadatta, Henbury, Dalhousie' (Horn Expedition); BMNH 1897.1.18.1 1♀, Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia, Horn Expedition [27°33'S 135°27'E]; MNHP 124-97 1♀, central Australia. - Nephila imperatrix Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1(3) 105-368 pp. [159].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB Mus. Godeffroy No. 7538 3♀, 1 juvenile ♀ ('presumably from Port Mackay, Rockhampton, or Bowen, Qld, Australia', see Harvey et al. (2007)), without data; SMNS 1 specimen, 'Neuholland'. - Nephila meridionalis hermitis Hogg, H.R. 1914. Spiders from the Montebello Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 69-92 [72].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1924.3.1.242 1♀, Australia, WA, Montebello Islands, Hermite Is. [20°28'S 115°31'E]; BMNH 1924.3.1.243 1♀, same locality data as for holotype. - Nephila picta Rainbow, W.J. 1896. Descriptions of some New Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 320-344 pls 18-20 [321].
Type data:
Holotype AM KS7826 ♀, Australia, NSW, Condobolin [33°05'S 147°09'E]. - Nephila meridionalis Hogg, H.R. 1910. Two new Nephilae from South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 59-62 [59].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA N1985227 ♀, Australia, SA, Kangaroos Island [~35°52'S 137°14'E]. - Meta aerea Hogg, H.R. 1896. Araneidae. pp. 309-356 in, Report of the Work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Pt 2 Zoology. Melbourne : Melville, Mullen and Slade. [320].
Type data:
Holotype NMV K-934 ♂, 'camp 05' and 'camp 25' (= Tempe Downs Station, NT, Australia, (Horn Expedition) [24°23'S 132°25'E].
Generic Combinations
- Trichonephila edulis (Labillardière, 1799). —
Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C.A., Cheng R.-C., Gregorič, M., Lupše, N., Lokovšek, T., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Agnarrson, I., Coddington, J.A. & Bond, J.E. 2019. Golden Orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572 [557] (new combination)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand
Ubiquitous throughout Australia.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
General References
Harvey, M.S., Austin, A.D. & Adams, M. 2007. The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in the Australian Region). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 407-451 [439] (new synonymies, new records, re-described, based on specimen from Barrow Island, WA)
Common Name References
Harvey, M.S., Austin, A.D. & Adams, M. 2007. The systematics and biology of the spider genus Nephila (Araneae: Nephilidae) in the Australian Region). Invertebrate Systematics 21: 407-451 [439] (Australian Golden Orb-weaving Spider)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02-May-2024 | ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 | 02-May-2024 | MOVED | |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 20-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 17-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |