Eriophora

Taxobox
name = "Eriophora"

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image_caption = "Eriophora transmarina"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Araneidae
genus = "Eriophora"
genus_authority = Simon, 1864
diversity_link = List of Araneidae species#Eriophora
diversity = 22 species
type_species = "Epeira ravilla"
type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1844
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 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".

Name

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

pecies

* "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

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

External Links

* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/spiders/tropical_orb_weaver.htm "Eriophora ravilla", a tropical orb weaver spider] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site