Eriophora

Eriophora
Eriophora heroine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Eriophora Simon, 1864
Type species
Epeira ravilla C. L. Koch, 1844
Species
See text
Diversity
22 species

Eriophora is a genus of orb-weaver spiders 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.^[1]

Name

The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek roots erio "wool" 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

Gallery

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  Flame-bellied or orange-bellied orb-weaver in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

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  Either Eriophora heroine or Eriophora pustuosa

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  Portrait of Eriophora heroine or Eriophora pustuosa

Notes

1. Platnick 2009

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Eriophora ravilla, a tropical orb weaver spider on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site