Nephila sumptuosa

Nephila sumptuosa, the red-legged golden orb-web spider, is a species of golden orb-web spider.[2][3]

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

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.[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

This species is present in East Africa and in Socotra.[5]

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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