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Nephila sumptuosa

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Species of spider

Nephila sumptuosa
Nephila sumptuosa. Museum specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Nephila
Species: N. sumptuosa
Binomial name
Nephila sumptuosa
Gerstäcker, 1873
Synonyms
  • Nephila amoenula Gerstäcker, 1873
  • Nephila bennetti O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898

Nephila sumptuosa, the red-legged golden orb-web spider, is a species of golden orb-web spider.

Description

Nephila sumptuosa can reach a length of 4.4 millimetres (0.17 in) in males, of 34.9 millimetres (1.37 in) in females. These large spiders have long reddish legs with clumps of hair. The abdomen is blackish and shows a series of whitish spots.

As is usual among orb-weavers, there is marked sexual dimorphism in general appearance, but especially in size.

Distribution

This species is present in East Africa and in Socotra.

References

  1. "Taxon details Nephila sumptuosa Gerstäcker, 1873)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-05-15
  2. Animal Diversity Web
  3. ITIS
  4. Matjaž Kuntner, Jonathan A. Coddington Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila
  5. Catalogue of life

Bibliography

  • Gerstäcker, A. (1873) Arachnoidea., In von der Decken, C. (ed.), Reisen in Ostafrica. Leipzig, 3(2): 461-503 (Araneae, pp. 473–503).
  • Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898b). Arachnida. In: Dixey, F., Mal Burr, & O. Pickard-Cambridge (eds.) On a collection of insects and arachnids made by Mr E. N. Bennett in Socotra, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898, 387-391
  • Platnick, Norman I. 2011. The World Spider Catalog, v.11.0. American Museum of Natural History. Database built by Robert J. Raven
  • Pocock, R. I. (1903g). Arachnida. In: Forbes, H. O. (ed.) The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum, pp. 175–208.

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Taxon identifiers
Nephila sumptuosa
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