List of Nephilidae species

This page lists all described species of the spider family Nephilidae as of Dec. 10, 2009.

Clitaetra

Clitaetra Simon, 1889

• Clitaetra clathrata Simon, 1907 — West Africa
• Clitaetra episinoides Simon, 1889 — Comoro Islands
• Clitaetra irenae Kuntner, 2006 — South Africa
• Clitaetra perroti Simon, 1894 — Madagascar
• Clitaetra simoni Benoit, 1962 — Congo
• Clitaetra thisbe Simon, 1903 — Sri Lanka

Herennia

Herennia Thorell, 1877

• Herennia agnarssoni Kuntner, 2005 — Solomon Islands
• Herennia deelemanae Kuntner, 2005 — Borneo
• Herennia etruscilla Kuntner, 2005 — Java
• Herennia gagamba Kuntner, 2005 — Philippines
• Herennia jernej Kuntner, 2005 — Sumatra
• Herennia milleri Kuntner, 2005 — New Guinea, New Britain
• Herennia multipuncta (Doleschall, 1859) — India to China, Borneo, Sulawesi
• Herennia oz Kuntner, 2005 — Northern Territory
• Herennia papuana Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
• Herennia sonja Kuntner, 2005 — Kalimantan, Sulawesi
• Herennia tone Kuntner, 2005 — Philippines

Nephila

Nephila Leach, 1815

• Nephila antipodiana (Walckenaer, 1842) — China, Indonesia, Philippines to New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Queensland
• Nephila clavata L. Koch, 1878 — India to Japan
• Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767) — USA to Argentina, São Tomé
  • Nephila clavipes fasciculata (De Geer, 1778) — USA to Argentina
  • Nephila clavipes vespucea (Walckenaer, 1842) — Argentina
• Nephila comorana Strand, 1916 — Comoro Islands
• Nephila constricta Karsch, 1879 — Tropical Africa
• Nephila cornuta (Pallas, 1772) — Guyana
• Nephila dirangensis Biswas & Biswas, 2006 — India
• Nephila edulis (Labillardière, 1799) — Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand
• Nephila fenestrata Thorell, 1859 — South Africa
  • Nephila fenestrata fuelleborni Dahl, 1912 — East Africa
  • Nephila fenestrata venusta (Blackwall, 1865) — West, Central Africa
• Nephila inaurata (Walckenaer, 1842) — Mauritius, Rodriguez, Réunion
  • Nephila inaurata madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863) — South Africa to Seychelles
• Nephila komaci Kuntner & Coddington, 2009 — South Africa, Madagascar
• Nephila kuhlii Doleschall, 1859 — India to Sulawesi
• Nephila laurinae Thorell, 1881 — China to Solomon Islands
• Nephila pakistaniensis Ghafoor & Beg, 2002 — Pakistan
• Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793) — China, Philippines to Australia
  • Nephila pilipes malagassa (Strand, 1907) — Madagascar
• Nephila plumipes (Latreille, 1804) — Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Ireland
• Nephila robusta Tikader, 1962 — India
• Nephila senegalensis (Walckenaer, 1842) — West Africa to Ethiopia
  • Nephila senegalensis annulata (Thorell, 1859) — Namibia, South Africa
  • Nephila senegalensis bragantina Brito Capello, 1867 — Central Africa
  • Nephila senegalensis hildebrandti Dahl, 1912 — Madagascar
  • Nephila senegalensis huebneri Dahl, 1912 — East Africa
  • Nephila senegalensis keyserlingi (Blackwall, 1865) — Congo, East Africa
  • Nephila senegalensis nyikae Pocock, 1898 — East Africa
  • Nephila senegalensis schweinfurthi Simon, 1890 — Yemen
• Nephila sexpunctata Giebel, 1867 — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Nephila sumptuosa Gerstäcker, 1873 — East Africa, Socotra
• Nephila tetragnathoides (Walckenaer, 1842) — Fiji, Tonga, Niue
• Nephila turneri Blackwall, 1833 — West, Central Africa
  • Nephila turneri orientalis Benoit, 1964 — Central, East Africa
• Nephila vitiana (Walckenaer, 1847) — Indonesia, Sulawesi, to Fiji, Tonga

Nephilengys

Nephilengys L. Koch, 1872

• Nephilengys borbonica (Vinson, 1863) — Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, Aldabra
• Nephilengys cruentata (Fabricius, 1775) — Tropical Africa, South America
• Nephilengys malabarensis (Walckenaer, 1842) — India to China, Philippines, Japan, Ambon
• Nephilengys papuana Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea, Queensland

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2010): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.