Lampona

Lampona
	Lampona or Lamponina species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lamponidae
Genus:	Lampona; Thorell, 1869 [1]
Type species
	L. cylindrata ; (L. Koch, 1866)
Species
	57, see text

Last updated August 27, 2019

Lampona is a genus of South Pacific spiders in the Lamponidae family that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.^[2] At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as "white-tailed spiders". Both hunt other spiders and have been introduced to New Zealand. The name is derived from the Middle English laumpe , meaning "light" or "fire".

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Oceania is a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania has a land area of 8,525,989 square kilometres (3,291,903 sq mi) and a population of 40 million. Situated in the southeast of the Asia-Pacific region, Oceania, when compared to continental regions, is the smallest in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica.

Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell was a Swedish arachnologist.

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains fifty-seven species native to Australia and New Guinea:^[1]

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

New Guinea is a large island separated by a shallow sea from the rest of the Australian continent. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km² (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.

L. airlie Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. allyn Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales)
L. ampeinna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
L. barrow Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. braemar Platnick, 2000 – Eastern Australia, Tasmania
L. brevipes L. Koch, 1872 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. bunya Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. carlisle Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. chalmers Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. chinghee Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
L. cohuna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
L. cudgen Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
L. cumberland Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Victoria)
L. cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866) (type) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
L. danggali Platnick, 2000 – Central, Eastern Australia
L. davies Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. dwellingup Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. eba Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
L. ewens Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Tasmania)
L. fife Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
L. finke Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia)
L. finnigan Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. flavipes L. Koch, 1872 – Central, Eastern Australia
L. foliifera Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia, central Australia)
L. garnet Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. gilles Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
L. gosford Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
L. hickmani Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Tasmania)
L. hirsti Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia)
L. kapalga Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland)
L. kirrama Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. lamington Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. lomond Platnick, 2000 – Southeastern Australia, Tasmania
L. macilenta L. Koch, 1873 – Southern Australia
L. mildura Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
L. molloy Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. monteithi Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. moorilyanna Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland, South Australia)
L. murina L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia, New Zealand
L. olga Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Northern Territory)
L. ooldea Platnick, 2000 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
L. papua Platnick, 2000 – New Guinea
L. punctigera Simon, 1908 – Southern Australia
L. pusilla L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia
L. quinqueplagiata Simon, 1908 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. ruida L. Koch, 1873 – Eastern Australia, Tasmania
L. russell Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. spec Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. superbus Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. talbingo Platnick, 2000 – Southeastern Australia
L. taroom Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. terrors Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. torbay Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. tulley Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)
L. walsh Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. whaleback Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)
L. yanchep Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia)

Norman I. Platnick is an American biological systematist and arachnologist. He is a Professor Emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D. recipient at Harvard University, Platnick has described over 1,800 species of spiders from around the world, making him the second most prolific arachnologist in history, behind only Eugène Simon. Until 2014 he was also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog, a website formerly hosted by the AMNH which tracks the arachnology literature, and attempts to maintain a comprehensive list, sorted taxonomically, of every species of spider which has been formally described. In 2007 he received the International Society of Arachnology's Bonnet award, named for Pierre Bonnet, in recognition for his work on the catalog.

In zoological nomenclature, a type species is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups called a type genus.

Eugène Louis Simon was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.

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References

1 2 "Gen. Lampona Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-12.
↑ Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Lampona Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-12.

[Thor1869-2] Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.

Lampona

Lampona or Lamponina species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lamponidae
Genus:	*Lampona* Thorell, 1869^[1]
Type species
L. cylindrata (L. Koch, 1866)
Species
57, see text