Taxon details
Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2024-12-22
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006439]
- Distribution: USA to Brazil, Caribbean, Galapagos. Introduced to Macaronesia, St. Helena, West Africa, Seychelles, India, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Pacific Is.
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- Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (not found by Asha & Sudhikumar, 2023: 360) of Uloborus danolius (Tikader, 1969d)
- Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 10f (not found by Asha & Sudhikumar, 2023: 360) of Uloborus danolius (Tikader, 1969d)
Uloborus zosis Walckenaer, 1841: 231 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062866].
Zosis caraibe Walckenaer, 1841: 231, pl. 20, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062867].
Orithya williamsii Blackwall, 1858b: 331 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053850].
Uloborus latreilleii Thorell, 1858b: 197 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062868].
Uloborus domesticus Doleschall, 1859: 46, pl. 7, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062869].
Orithya williamsii Blackwall, 1861b: 443 (Dm).
Uloborus borbonicus Vinson, 1863: 316, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062870].
Orithya luteolus Blackwall, 1865a: 89 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056717].
Zosis caraiba Taczanowski, 1872: 110 (lapsus, Df).
Uloborus zosis L. Koch, 1872a: 221, pl. 19, f. 3 (Df, S of Zosis caraibe).
Uloborus spinitarsis Keyserling, 1887a: 231, pl. 20, f. 9 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056718].
Uloborus zosis Marx, 1889a: 99, pl. 4, f. 1 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Simon, 1892a: 211, 214 (S of Orithya williamsi).
Uloborus geniculatus McCook, 1894: 273, pl. 27, f. 1-2 (mf, S of Uloborus borbonicus, U. domesticus, U. latreillei and U. zosis).
Uloborus geniculatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 362, pl. 34, f. 9-10 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Berland, 1924a: 176, f. 16-17 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus altissimus Franganillo, 1926a: 46 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006440].
Uloborus geniculatus humilis Franganillo, 1926a: 46 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006442].
Uloborus geniculatus quadripunctatus Franganillo, 1926a: 47 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006443].
Uloborus geniculatus similis Franganillo, 1926a: 46 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006444].
Uloborus geniculatus Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 228, f. 75-76 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Berland & Millot, 1940: 152, f. 5 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Muma & Gertsch, 1964: 37, f. 82-86 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Lehtinen, 1967: 277, f. 493 (m, T from Uloborus).
Uloborus geniculatus Chrysanthus, 1967b: 98, f. 32-39 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Yaginuma, 1967b: 92, f. 2h-j (f).
Uloborus danolius Tikader, 1969d: 128, f. 6-9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006376].
Zosis geniculatus Saaristo, 1978: 107, f. 78-87 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Benoit, 1978g: 676 (S of Uloborus luteolus).
Zosis geniculatus Opell, 1979: 510, f. 2, 162-174, pl. 1A-D, 2D, 7C (mf).
Uloborus danolius Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 15, f. 8-11 (f).
Zosis geniculatus Opell, 1981: 221, f. 4 (m).
Zosis geniculatus Roth, 1982: 50-2, f. 5, 9 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Roth, 1985: B46-3, f. 5, 9 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Davies, 1985: 118 (S of Uloborus spinitarsis).
Uloborus geniculatus Wunderlich, 1986: 215, f. 211.
Uloborus geniculatus Yaginuma, 1986a: 14, f. 9.5 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Davies, 1988b: 276, f. 3 (mf).
Uloborus geniculatus Chikuni, 1989b: 23, f. 4 (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Coddington, 1990: 12, f. 41 (m).
Uloborus danolius Gajbe, 1991: 307, f. 1-3 (Dm).
Zosis geniculatus Yoshida, 1991d: 24, f. 2B (m).
Uloborus danolius Gajbe, 1993e: 235, f. 1-3 (m).
Zosis geniculatus Roth, 1994: 192, f. 5, 9 (mf).
Uloborus luteolus Schmidt, Geisthardt & Piepho, 1994: 87, f. 2 (f).
Zosis geniculatus Song & Zhu, 1994: 38, f. 3A (m; f f. 3B-C is an undescribed Philoponella per Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 85).
Zosis geniculatus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 27, f. 7a-b (f).
Philoponella xiamenensis Xie et al., 1997: 35, f. 10-12 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056719].
Zosis geniculatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 85, f. 35N-O, 37A (mf, S of Philoponella xiamenensis).
Uloborus danolius Gajbe, 2004b: 139, f. 9-11 (m).
Uloborus danolius Gajbe, 2007: 431, f. 20-22 (m).
Zosis geniculata Penney, 2008: 88, f. 5.60 (m).
Zosis geniculatus Yoshida, 2009b: 145, f. 8-11, 26-27 (mf).
Zosis geniculata Saaristo, 2010: 288, f. 40.32-41 (mf).
Zosis geniculata Sen et al., 2015: 22, f. 29-33, pl. 12 (f).
Zosis geniculata Alayón & Sherwood, 2022: 613 (S of Zosis geniculata altissima, Z. geniculata humilis, Z. geniculata quadripunctata and Z. geniculata similis, confirming Bonnet, 1959: 4763).
Zosis geniculata Asha & Sudhikumar, 2023: 360, f. 1-14 (mf, S of Uloborus danolius).
Zosis geniculata de Luna, Solís-Rojas & García-Barrios, 2023: 694, f. 1A-C, 3A-B (mf).
Zosis geniculatus Baert et al., 2023: 36, f. 140A-F (mf).
Alayón García, G. & Sherwood, D. (2022). Nomenclatural notes on some enigmatic Cuban spiders described by Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa (1873–1955) (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(3): 609-616. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.609 -- Show included taxa
Asha, T. J. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). Uloborus danolius Tikader, 1969 is a junior synonym of Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789) (Araneae: Uloboridae). Serket 19(4): 359-364. -- Show included taxa
Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [includes figs of 5 undescribed species] -- Show included taxa
Barrion, A. T. & Litsinger, J. A. (1995). Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 700 pp., 16 pls. -- Show included taxa
Benoit, P. L. G. (1978g). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Araneae Cribellatae. Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 675-679. -- Show included taxa
Berland, L. (1924a). Araignées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Iles Loyalty. In: Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds.) Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie. Vol. III. L. II. C. W. Kreidel, Berlin, pp. 157-255. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6790 -- Show included taxa
Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1940). Les araignées de l'Afrique occidental français. II, Cribellata. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 108: 149-160. -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1858b). Characters of a new genus and description of three recently discovered species of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 2(11): 331-335. doi:10.1080/00222935808697040 -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1861b). Descriptions of several recently discovered spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 8(48): 441-446. doi:10.1080/00222936108697446 -- Show included taxa
Blackwall, J. (1865a). Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(92): 80-101. doi:10.1080/00222936508679383 -- Show included taxa
Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1967b). Spiders from south New Guinea IX. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 110: 89-105. -- Show included taxa
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). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. -- Show included taxa
Davies, V. T. (1985). Araneomorphae (in part). Zoological Catalogue of Australia 3: 49-125. -- Show included taxa
Davies, V. T. (1988b). An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 273-332. -- Show included taxa
Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. -- Show included taxa
Franganillo B., P. (1926a). Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 9: 42-68. -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (1991). Description of male spider Uloborus danolius Tikader (Araneae: Uloboridae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 89: 307-308. -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (1993e). Description of the male of Uloborus danolius Tikader (Araneae: Uloboridae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 91: 235-237. (see also: Gajbe, 1991) -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (2004b). Studies on some spiders of the families Oecobiidae, Eresidae, Hersiliidae, Urocteidae and Uloboridae (Araneae: Arachnida) from Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 103(1-2): 131-142. -- Show included taxa
Gajbe, U. A. (2007). Araneae: Arachnida. In: Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata 15(1), 419-540. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1887a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 35-36]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 153-232, pl. 12-20. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa
Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] -- Show included taxa
Luna, M. de, Solís-Rojas, C. & García-Barrios, R. (2023). New state records of the humped spider Zosis geniculata (Olivier, 1789) (Araneae: Uloboridae) in Mexico. Revista Chilena de Entomología 49(4): 693-699. doi:10.35249/rche.49.4.23.03 -- Show included taxa
Marx, G. (1889a). A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of the Bermuda Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 98-101. -- Show included taxa
McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 -- Show included taxa
Muma, M. H. & Gertsch, W. J. (1964). The spider family Uloboridae in North America north of Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2196: 1-43. -- Show included taxa
Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 -- Show included taxa
Opell, B. D. (1979). Revision of the genera and tropical American species of the spider family Uloboridae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 443-549. -- Show included taxa
Opell, B. D. (1981). New Central and South American Uloboridae (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 219-228. -- Show included taxa
Penney, D. (2008). Dominican amber spiders: A comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. Siri Scientific Press, 176 pp. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1930a). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 159-356. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Roth, V. D. (1982). Handbook for spider identification. Published by the author, Portal, Arizona, 128 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roth, V. D. (1985). Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville. -- Show included taxa
Roth, V. D. (1994). Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, 203 pp. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G., Geisthardt, M. & Piepho, F. (1994). Zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna der Kapverdischen Inseln (Arachnida: Araneida). Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins 19: 81-126. -- Show included taxa
Sen, S., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News 20: 1-339. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1994). On some species of cave arachnids of China. In: Chen, Y. Z. (ed.) Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of China Zoological Society: Memorial Volume Dedicated to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birthday of the Late Prof. Sisan Chen (Z. Chen). China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, pp. 35-46. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Taczanowski, L. (1872). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 64-112, pl. 3-4. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1873] -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1858b). Till kännedomen om slägten a Mithras och Uloborus. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 15: 191-205. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. (1969d). Two new spiders of the genus Uloborus of the family Uloboridae from India. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science 70(B): 127-130. -- Show included taxa
Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. -- Show included taxa
Vinson, A. (1863). Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar. Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 337 pp., pl. 1-14. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517 -- Show included taxa
Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden, 283 pp. -- Show included taxa
Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J., Zhang, Y. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1997). Five new species of the family Uloboridae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. Korean Arachnology 13(2): 33-39. [N.B.: name of first author mistakenly given as L. P. Xian in publication] -- Show included taxa
Yaginuma, T. (1967b). Revision and new addition to fauna of Japanese spiders, with descriptions of seven new species. Literary Department Review, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka 1: 87-107. -- Show included taxa
Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (1991d). A note on the Japanese genera Uloborus, Zosis, Octonoba and Philoponella (Araneae: Uloboridae). Atypus 98/99: 21-26. -- Show included taxa
Yoshida, H. (2009b). Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 142-147, 356-393, 467-468. -- Show included taxa
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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2024-12-22 | New taxonomic reference entry | Baert et al., 2023 | n/a |
2023-11-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | de Luna, Solís-Rojas & García-Barrios, 2023 | n/a |
2023-10-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Asha & Sudhikumar, 2023 | n/a |
2023-10-04 | Species synonymy | Asha & Sudhikumar, 2023 | Zosis danolia synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2022-11-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Alayón & Sherwood, 2022 | n/a |
2022-11-03 | Species synonymy | Alayón & Sherwood, 2022 | Zosis geniculata similis synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2022-11-03 | Species synonymy | Alayón & Sherwood, 2022 | Zosis geniculata quadripunctata synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2022-11-03 | Species synonymy | Alayón & Sherwood, 2022 | Zosis geniculata humilis synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2022-11-03 | Species synonymy | Alayón & Sherwood, 2022 | Zosis geniculata altissima synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2022-03-23 | Species synonymy | Simon, 1892a | Zosis williamsi synonymized with Zosis geniculata |
2015-12-10 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sen et al., 2015 | n/a |