Taxon details
Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2022-07-08
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016725]
- Distribution: Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Réunion, Mauritius. Introduced to the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela to Argentina
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; m (1978.11.1.42) of Neoscona seca (Roberts, 1983)
Epeira lanuginosa Lenz, 1886: 389 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060938].
Epeira moreli Simon, 1886g: 370 (Df).
Epeira theisii Keyserling, 1893: 246, pl. 12, f. 184 (mf; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 490).
Epeira theisii McCook, 1894: 166, pl. 6, f. 8-9 (mf; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 490).
Araneus neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 305 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060954].
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926a: 56, f. 2-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060955].
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926c: 15, f. 5-7 (m).
Cubanella recta Franganillo, 1930: 22, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060968].
Neoscona neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 324.
Neoscona neotheis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 21, f. 31 (f).
Neoscona nidicola Franganillo, 1936c: 76, f. 34 (f).
Neoscona recta Franganillo, 1936c: 77, f. 35-36.
Neoscona nidicola Bryant, 1940: 511.
Neoscona neotheis Berman & Levi, 1971: 490, f. 12, 91-100, 130-131 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Cubanella nidicola and C. recta).
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1980: 407 (removed from S of Neoscona theisi, rejecting Simon, 1893h: 207).
Neoscona seca Roberts, 1983: 275, f. 202-204, 213-214 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060982].
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1986: 56, f. 71-78 (mf, S of Araneus lanuginosus, Neoscona neotheis and N. seca).
Neoscona neotheis Barrion et al., 1988a: 394, f. 3a-g, 9c (f).
Neoscona moreli Levi, 1993a: 232, f. 18-21 (mf).
Neoscona moreli Saaristo, 2010: 41, f. 4.32-36, 53 (mf).
Neoscona moreli Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022b: 23, f. 1-19 (f, m habitus).
Neoscona moreli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 6, p. 6: 3 f., p. 7: 8 f. (f).
Barrion, A. A., Barrion, A. T., Casal, C. V., Taylo, L. D. & Amalin, D. M. (1988a). The orb-weaving spiders genus Neoscona (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines. The Philippine Agricultural Scientist 69: 385-409. 
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Berman, J. D. & Levi, H. W. (1971). The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141(8): 465-500. -- Show included taxa
Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 -- 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
Franganillo B., P. (1926c). Arácnidos de Cuba: Arácnidos nuevos o poco conocidos de la Isla de Cuba. Habana, pp. 1-24. (possibly reprinted from "Cuba Contemporania 41(161)") -- Show included taxa
Franganillo B., P. (1930). Arácnidos de Cuba: Mas arácnidos nuevos de la Isla de Cuba. Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas 1: 47-99. [reprinted separately, pp. 1-55; only reprint seen and cited] -- Show included taxa
Franganillo B., P. (1936c). Los arácnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp. -- Show included taxa
Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936b). New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 863: 1-22. -- Show included taxa
Grasshoff, M. (1980). 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). Araneidae-Argiopinae, Araneidae-Araneinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94(2): 387-409. -- Show included taxa
Grasshoff, M. (1986). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123. -- Show included taxa
Jones, A. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2022b). Notes on the grass orb-web spider Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 42: 23-26. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1893). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 209-377. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa
Lenz, H. (1886). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna Madagascars. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Zeitschrift für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 1(2): 379-408, pl. 10. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1993a). American Neoscona and corrections to previous revisions of Neotropical orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 99(2-3, 1992): 221-239. doi:10.1155/1992/93912 -- 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
Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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
Roberts, M. J. (1983). Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(3): 217-291. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1983.tb00099.x -- 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
Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- 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
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022b | n/a |
| 2022-06-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f | n/a |