Eriophora
Encyclopedia
Eriophora is a genus of orb-weaver
spider
s that occur in the Americas
, Australasia
and Africa
. Eriophora transmarina is commonly known as the "Australian garden orb weaver spider".
Most species now grouped under Eriophora have been classified as Araneus
at some time in their description history.
roots erio "wool
" and phorein "to carry".
Orb-weaver spider
The "typical" orb-weaver spiders are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests...
spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
s that occur in the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
, Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. Eriophora transmarina is commonly known as the "Australian garden orb weaver spider".
Most species now grouped under Eriophora have been classified as Araneus
Araneus
Araneus is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders. It includes about 650 species, among which are the European garden spider and the barn spider.-Description:...
at some time in their description history.
Name
The genus name is derived from the Ancient GreekAncient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
roots erio "wool
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
" and phorein "to carry".
Species
- Eriophora astridae (Strand, 1917) — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
- Eriophora aurea (Saito, 1934) — Japan
- Eriophora baotianmanensis (Hu, Wang & Wang, 1991) — China
- Eriophora biapicata (L. Koch, 1871) — Australia
- Eriophora collina (Keyserling, 1886) — Queensland
- Eriophora decorosa (Urquhart, 1894) — New Zealand
- Eriophora edax (Blackwall, 1863) — USA to Brazil
- Eriophora flavicoma (Simon, 1880) — New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
- Eriophora fuliginea (C. L. Koch, 1838) — Honduras to Brazil
- Eriophora heroine (L. Koch, 1871) — Australia, New Zealand
- Eriophora himalayaensis (Tikader, 1975) — India, China
- Eriophora nephiloides (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889) — Guatemala to Guyana
- Eriophora neufvilleorum (Lessert, 1930) — Congo, Ethiopia
- Eriophora oculosa (Zhu & Song, 1994) — China
- Eriophora plumiopedella (Yin, Wang & Zhang, 1987) — China, Taiwan
- Eriophora poecila (Zhu & Wang, 1994) — China
- Eriophora pustulosa (Walckenaer, 1842) — Australia, Pacific Islands, New Zealand
- Eriophora ravilla (C. L. Koch, 1844) — USA to Brazil
- Eriophora sachalinensis (Saito, 1934) — Russia, China, Korea, Japan
- Eriophora transmarina (Keyserling, 1865) — New Guinea, Australia, Samoa
- Eriophora tricentra (Zhu & Song, 1994) — China
- Eriophora yanbaruensis (Tanikawa, 2000) — Japan
External links
- Eriophora ravilla, a tropical orb weaver spider on the UFUniversity of FloridaThe University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
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