Ambon Rock Weaver
This is a medium-sized brown spider with a black or darkly coloured cephalic region. The females show the characteristics of the family mentioned in the previous page. The males share the general appearance of the females, except that they possess long, forward-pointing bristles curved at their ends, on the prolateral surfaces of the femora, patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi of legs I and II.
. This is the first Singapore record of this species and family.
| Length | ♀5 –8 mm; ♂ 5 mm |
| Type Locality | Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia |
| Distribution | Africa, South Asia, Singapore, Indonesia (Maluku, Papua), Papua New Guinea, China. |
| Habitat | Sheltered, dry, dark places around built-up environment, such as underneath expressway flyovers. |
| Biology | Weaves an irregular sheet web, with dry but entangling cribellate silk, extending from a retreat deep inside a crevice, under a stone or over loose soil particles, or under bark. The woolly cribellate silk strands are best observed in freshly woven webs. Their prey includes small black beetles. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; ♀ of Amaurobius chinesicus (Renner, 1988b)
Holotype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ (4992/18) of Phaeocedus nicobarensis (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020e)
Amaurobius laminatus (Original description ♂)
Amaurobius castaneiceps (Original description ♂)
Simon, 1893d Voyage de M: 69, f. 1
Titanoeca birmanica (Original description ♀)
Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 62 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492
Titanoeca birmanica (Original description ♂)
Thorell, 1897a Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine: 261
Amaurobius chinesicus (Original description ♀)
Strand, 1907k Süd- und ostasiatische Spinnen: 113, f. 50a
Titanoeca fulmeki (Original description ♀)
Syrorisa mumfordi (Original description ♀)
Berland, 1933b Araignées des Iles Marquises: 69, f. 60-62
Amaurobius yanoianus (Original description ♀)
Nakatsudi, 1943a Some Arachnida from Micronesia: 149, f. 2, 2a-b
Pandava laminata (mf, Transferred from Amaurobius, Synonym of Amaurobius castaneiceps, A. chinesicus, A. taprobanicola, Syrorisa mumfordi, Titanoeca birmanica and T. fulmeki)
Lehtinen, 1967 Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha: 255, f. 425-426, 440
Titanoeca fulmeki (♀, D♂)
Chrysanthus, 1967b Spiders from south New Guinea IX: 102, f. 52-54, 58-59
Phaeocedus nicobarensis (Original description ♀)
Tikader, 1977a Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean: 187, f. 15A-C
Phaeocedus nicobarensis (♀)
Tikader, 1982b Part 2: 361, f. 154-157
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 396, f. 230Q, U
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Jäger, 2008e Pandava laminata, eine weitere nach Deutschland importierte Spinnenart (Araneae: Titanoecidae): 4, f. 1-9 doi:10.5431/aramit3602
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Ono & Ogata, 2009 Titanoecidae, Dictynidae: 133, f. 7-10
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa: 34, f. 1-37 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.2
Pandava laminata (♀)
Pfliegler, Pfeiffer & Grabolle, 2012 Some spiders (Araneae) new to the Hungarian fauna, including three genera and one family: 184, f. 1d, 2l-m
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Solanki, Siliwal & Kumar, 2017 First record of Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) (Araneae: Titanoecidae) from India: 24, f. 1B-C, 2A-F
Pandava laminata (♂♀)
Rozwałka & Bielak-Bielecki, 2017 First records of the alien spider Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) (Araneae: Titanoecidae) in Poland: 121, f. 2-9 doi:10.3161/00159301FF2016.59.2.121
Pandava laminata (Synonym of Amaurobius yanoianus)
Marusik, Otto & Japoshvili, 2020 Taxonomic notes on Amaurobius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae), including the description of a new species: 54 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.3
Pandava laminata (♀)
Parker, 2020 A new spider species for the United Kingdom – Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878): 17, f. 1-6
Pandava laminata (♀, Synonym of Phaeocedus nicobarensis)
Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2020e On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: III: 1332, f. 5a-d doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1797201
Pandava laminata (♀)
Zamani & Koponen, 2025 First Nordic record of Pandava laminata (Araneae: Titanoecidae), with a synopsis of anthropochorous species of spiders in Finland: 6, f. 1, 2a-c doi:10.30963/aramit6903
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Africa, South Asia, Singapore, Indonesia (Maluku, Papua), Papua New Guinea, China.