Nearctic States & Provinces: FL LA SC TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/13943
Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
golden silk orbweaver
FAMILY: NEPHILIDAE Simon, 1894
Genus: Nephila Leach, 1815
Species: Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
nephilid spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
golden silk orbweaver
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Argentina, São Tomé
Nearctic States & Provinces:
FL LA SC TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Stahel, Walter
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Aranea clavipes Linnaeus 1767 |
| Aranea spinimobilis Linnaeus 1767 |
| Nephila clavipes Linnaeus 1767 |
| Aranea clavipes Fabricius 1775 |
| Aranea longimana Fabricius 1781 |
| Aranea clavipes Olivier 1789 |
| Aranea longimana Olivier 1789 |
| Epeira clavipes Hahn 1821 |
| Epeira clavipes Hahn 1833 |
| Nephila plumipes C. L. Koch 1839 |
| Epeira plumipes Walckenaer 1842 |
| Nephila clavipes Taczanowski 1873 |
| Nephila concolor McCook 1894 |
| Nephila wilderi McCook 1894 |
| Nephila wistariana McCook 1894 |
| Nephila clavipes F. O. P.-Cambridge 1901 |
| Nephila clavipes F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904 |
| Nephila clavipes Dahl 1912 |
| Nephila clavipes Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Nephila clavipes Franganillo 1931 |
| Nephila clavipes Franganillo 1936 |
| Nephila clavipes Archer 1958 |
| Nephila thomensis Benoit 1963 |
| Nephila clavipes Wiehle 1967 |
| Nephila clavipes Levi 1980 |
| Nephila clavipes Heimer 1982 |
| Nephila clavipes Schult 1983 |
| Nephila clavipes Schult & Sellenschlo 1983 |
| Nephila clavipes Roth 1985 |
| Nephila clavipes Wunderlich 1986 |
| Nephila clavipes Higgins 1989 |
| Nephila clavipes Levi & Eickstedt 1989 |
| Nephila clavipes Coddington 1990 |
| Nephila clavipes Nentwig 1993 |
| Nephila clavipes Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington 1995 |
| Nephila clavipes Ramos et al. 2005 |
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 accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/NEPHILIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Nephila Leach, 1815‡‡
N. clavipes fasciculata (De Geer, 1778) ...............USA to Argentina
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution