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Araneidae Acusilas

Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895

Brown Leaf-rolling Orb Weavers

The background body colour can range from reddish brown to dark brown, but always with some transverse black bandings on the abdomen.

The male differs from the female by having a smaller body size and shorter and more pointed abdomen.

Length♀ 8–11 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm.
HabitatUnderstorey in primary and secondary forests.
BiologyEggs are laid inside the leaf retreat, wrapped with whitish silk. The spiderlings are pinkish.
Type LocalityJava, Indonesia.
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Pahang, Sabah), Indonesia (Java, East Kalimantan, Maluku), Sri Lanka, China, Japan, India.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references

  1. Acusilas coccineus (Original description ♀)

    Simon, 1895a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier: 785 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973

  2. Phonognatha vicitra (Original description ♀)

    Sherriffs, 1928 South Indian Arachnology: 183, f. 1-2 doi:10.1080/00222932808672866

  3. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Uyemura, 1939b [Habit and description of Acusilas coccineus]: 142, f. a-f doi:10.2476/asjaa.4.139

  4. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Yaginuma, 1960 Spiders of Japan in colour: 59, f. 58

  5. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Namkung, 1964 Spiders from Chungjoo, Korea: 37, f. 23

  6. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Yaginuma, 1971 Spiders of Japan in colour (enlarged and revised edition): 59, f. 58

  7. Acusilas gentingensis (Original description ♀)

    Murphy & Murphy, 1983b The orb weaver genus Acusilas (Araneae, Araneidae): 122, f. 18-20

  8. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Hu, 1984 The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests: 88, f. 78.1-2

  9. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Yaginuma, 1986a Spiders of Japan in color (new ed: 116, f. 61.2

  10. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 75, f. 40

  11. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 112, f. 106.1-3

  12. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 1997d Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae: 109, f. 35a-d

  13. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 230, f. 133A-D, 145M

  14. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2002 The spiders of Korea: 256, f. 19.18a-b

  15. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Kim & Kim, 2002 A revisional study of family Araneidae Dahl, 1912 (Arachnida, Araneae) from Korea: 177, f. 1, 70-71, 156-157

  16. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 257, f. 19.17a-b

  17. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Shin, 2007 A systematic study of the araneid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in Korea (1): 163, f. 11A-H

  18. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Tanikawa, 2007c An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae: 90, f. 279-281, 746-747

  19. Acusilas coccineus (♂)

    Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008 Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies: 176, f. 17B-D doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x

  20. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀, Synonym of Acusilas gentingensis)

    Schmidt & Scharff, 2008 A taxonomic revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Acusilas Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae): 18, f. 7A-B, 10A-D, 11A-B, 12A, 13A, 18A-B, 19A-E, 20A-B, 21A-B doi:10.1163/187631208788784147

  21. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Tanikawa, 2009 Hersiliidae: 461, f. 317-318

  22. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 587, f. 282a-d

  23. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Kim & Lee, 2012b Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae: 12, f. 3A-C, pl. 1

  24. Acusilas coccineus (♂♀)

    Baba & Tanikawa, 2015 The handbook of spiders: 41, 4 f.

  25. Acusilas coccineus (♀)

    Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 On the araneid fauna (Araneae: Araneidae) of the tea estates of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 11, f. 48-52, 176

  26. Acusilas coccineus (m♀, Synonym of Phonognatha vicitra)

    Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018c Phonognatha vicitra Sherriffs, 1928—a taxonomic misidentification of the orb-weaving spider Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae): 391, f. 1A-E, 2A-G doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.12

Distribution of Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895

Singapore, Malaysia (Pahang, Sabah), Indonesia (Java, East Kalimantan, Maluku), Sri Lanka, China, Japan, India.

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