Nephila pilipes

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Nephilinae
Genus: Nephila
Species: Nephila pilipes
Subspecies: N. p. annulipes – N. p. flavornata – N. p. hasselti – N. p. jalorensis – N. p. lauterbachi – N. p. malagassa – N. p. novaeguineae – N. p. piscatorum – N. p. walckenaeri

Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793)

• Aranea maculata Fabricius, 1793 (preoccupied by Olivier, 1789)
• Aranea pilipes Fabricius, 1793 (original combination)
• Epeira walckenaeri Doleschall, 1857
• Epeira hasseltii Doleschall, 1859
• Nephila maculata annulipes Thorell, 1881
• Nephila maculata jalorensis Simon, 1901
• Nephila maculata novaeguineae Strand, 1906
• Nephila pictithorax Kulczyński, 1911
• Nephila maculata flavornata Merian, 1911
• Nephila maculata piscatorum Vis, 1911
• Nephila maculata lauterbachi Dahl, 1912
• Nephila maculata — Leach, 1815
• Nephila robusta Tikader, 1962: 566 (synonymized by Sankaran et al., 2020: 592)
  • Type locality: India, West Bengal: North 24 Parganas: Gobardanga (22º52’59.62’’N, 88º45’49.79’’E), 13 m alt.
    • Holotype: NZC-ZSI. female ♀. 30.IX.1956. legit B.K. Tikader. 2566/18.

• Fabricius, J. C. 1793. Entomologiae systematica. Hafniae, 2: 407–428. [425]

• Sankaran, P.M., Caleb, T.D.J., Joseph, M.M. & Sebastian, P.A. 2020. On a new synonymy in the spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 (Araneidae, Nephilinae) from India with supplementary notes on colour polymorphism in the genus. Zootaxa 4786(4): 592–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4786.4.11. . Reference page. 
• Tikader, B.K. 1962a. Studies on some Indian spiders (Araneae: Arachnida). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44(300): 561-584. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1962.tb01624.x. . Reference page. 

• Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]