Taxon details
Backobourkia heroine (L. Koch, 1871)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-02-26
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015881]
- Distribution: Australia (mainland, Norfolk Is.), New Caledonia, possibly New Zealand
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- Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
Epeira transmarina L. Koch, 1871: 59, pl. 5, f. 2-2a (f; misidentified per Keyserling, 1886a: 141).
Epeira heroine Keyserling, 1886a: 138 (Dm; f pl. 11, f. 3-3a see Backobourkia brouni).
Epeira annulata Keyserling, 1886a: 141 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064117].
Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1892b: 243 (Df; preoccupied by Epeira ventriosa Urquhart, 1891 [see Araneus ventriosus], not by Epeira ventricosa L. Koch, 1878 [see Araneus ventricosus]) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064140].
Aranea ventricosella Roewer, 1942a: 835 (replacement name for "Epeira ventricosa Urquhart" which is just a lapsus, but since the intended Urquhart name is actually preoccupied, Roewer's replacement name can be used) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015278].
Araneus heroine Dondale, 1966: 1166, f. 2A-C (mf, S of Araneus annulatus; some specimens may belong to B. brouni).
Araneus heroine Hickman, 1967: 65, f. 115-117 (mf; some specimens may belong to B. brouni).
Eriophora heroine Court & Forster, 1988: 100 (T from Araneus, S of Araneus brouni [revalidated by Framenau et al., 2010: 96]; mf f. 352, 504-506, 508-513 see Backobourkia brouni).
Eriophora heroine Paquin et al., 2008d: 4 (S of Araneus ventricosellus and A. ventriosus Urquhart; both may be S of B. brouni).
Backobourkia heroine Framenau et al., 2010: 92, f. 1C-E, 4A-D, 5A-B, 6A-K, 7A-C, 8A-C (mf, T from Eriophora).
Court, D. J. & Forster, R. R. (1988). The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae. Otago Museum Bulletin 6: 68-124. 
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Dondale, C. D. (1966). The spider fauna (Araneida) of deciduous orchards in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 14(6): 1157-1192. doi:10.1071/ZO9661157 -- Show included taxa
Framenau, V. W., Dupérré, N., Blackledge, T. A. & Vink, C. (2010). Systematics of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 68(1): 79-111. doi:10.3897/asp.68.e31717 -- Show included taxa
Hickman, V. V. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1886a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 33-34]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 87-152, pl. 7-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1871). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 1-2]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1-104, pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Paquin, P., Vink, C., Dupérré, N., Sirvid, P. J. & Court, D. J. (2008d). Nomina dubia and faunistic issues with New Zealand spiders (Araneae). Insecta Mundi 46: 1-6. -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy, Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa
Urquhart, A. T. (1892b). Descriptions of new species of Araneidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 230-253. -- Show included taxa
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