Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
golden silk orbweaver
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FAMILY: NEPHILIDAE Simon, 1894 Genus: Nephila Leach, 1815 Species: Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
nephilid spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
golden silk orbweaver
Distribution & Point Collections
Global Distribution: USA to Argentina, São Tomé
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
FL LA SC TX
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Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): 300 pieds;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Contributed Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Archer, A. F. 1958. Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 4. Am. Mus. Novit. 1922: 1-21. 
Benoit, P. L. G. 1963. Araneidae-Nephilinae africains du Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (Araneae). Ent. Mitt. zool. StInst. zool. Mus. Hamburg 2: 367-372.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1901. On a collection of spiders from the Bahama Islands made by J. L. Bonhote, Esq., with characters of a new genus and species of Mygalomorphae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 7: 322-332.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Dahl, F. 1912. Seidenspinne und Spinneseide. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin 6: 1-90.
Fabricius, J. C. 1781. Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphos in adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburgi and Kilonii, 1: 1-552 (Araneae, pp. 536-549).
Fabricius, J. C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Flensburg and Lipsiae, 832 pp. (Araneae, pp. 431-441).
Franganillo B., P. 1936. Los ar cnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp.
Franganillo B., P. 1931. Excursiones arachnológicas, durante el mes de agosto de 1930. Estudios de "Belen" 1931(25): 168-171; (26): 219-224; (27-28): 285-288; (29): 44-49.
Hahn, C. W. 1833. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 77-129; Zweite Band, pp. 1-16.
Hahn, C. W. 1821. Monographie der Spinnen. Nürnberg, Heft 2, pp. 1-2, 4 pls.
Heimer, S. 1982. Interne Arretierungsmechanismen an der Kopulationsorganen männlicher Spinnen (Arachnida, Araneae). Ein Beitrag zur Phylogenie der Araneoidea. Ent. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 45: 35-64.
Higgins, L. E. 1989. Effect of insemination on the morphology of the internal female genitalia of the spider Nephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae). Ann. ent. Soc. Am. 82: 748-753.
Hormiga, G., W. G. Eberhard & J. A. Coddington. 1995. Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Aust. J. Zool. 43: 313-364.
Koch, C. L. 1839. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Funfter Band, pp. 125-158, Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106.
Levi, H. W. 1980. The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 1-7
Levi, H. W. & V. R. D. von Eickstedt. 1989. The Nephilinae spiders of the neotropics. Mems Inst. Butantan 51: 43-56.
Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio duodecima, reformata. Holmiae, 1(2): 533-1327 (Araneae, pp. 1030-1037).
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Nentwig, W. 1993. Spiders of Panama: Biogeography, investigation, phenology, check list, key and bibliography of a tropical spider fauna. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, vi + 274 pp.
Olivier G., A. 1789. Araignée, Aranea. Encycl. méth. Hist. nat. Ins. Paris 4: 173-240.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Ramos, M., J. A. Coddington, T. E. Christenson & D. J. Irschick. 2005. Have male and female genitalia coevolved? A phylogenetic analysis of genitalic morphology and sexual size dimorphism in web-building spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). Evol. 59: 1989-1999.
Roth, V. D. 1985. Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, Florida.
Schult, J. 1983. Simple bulbs in male spiders - primitive or derived? (Arachnida: Araneae). Verh. naturw. Ver. Hamb. 26: 155-160.
Schult, J. & U. Sellenschlo. 1983. Morphologie und Funktion der Genitalstrukturen bei Nephila (Arach., Aran., Araneidae). Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst. 80: 221-230.
Taczanowski, L. 1873. Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 9: 113-150, 261-286.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
Wiehle, H. 1967. Meta,-eine semientelegyne Gattung der Araneae (Arach.). Senckenberg. biol. 48: 183-196.
Wunderlich, J. 1986. Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog