Eriophora

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

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".

[edit] Name

The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek roots erio "wool" and phorein "to carry".

[edit] 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, Tasmania, 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

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