Nephila sumptuosa
| Nephila sumptuosa | |
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| Nephila sumptuosa. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Nephilidae |
| Genus: | Nephila |
| Species: | N. sumptuosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Nephila sumptuosa Gerstäcker, 1873[1]
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Nephila sumptuosa, the red-legged golden orb-web spider, is a species of golden orb-web spider.[2][3]
Description
[edit]Nephila sumptuosa can reach a length of 4.4 millimetres (0.17 in) in males, of 34.9 millimetres (1.37 in) in females.[4] 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
[edit]This species is present in East Africa and in Socotra.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Taxon details Nephila sumptuosa Gerstäcker, 1873)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-05-15
- ^ Animal Diversity Web
- ^ ITIS
- ^ Matjaž Kuntner, Jonathan A. Coddington Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila
- ^ Catalogue of life
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.