Streaked Golden Humpback Spider
In both sexes, the abdomen is arched and peaked at the anterior one-third, giving it a humpback look. The species name "striata" refers to the dark streaks lining the lateral sides of the abdomen.
When the spider is disturbed or threatened, the yellow or golden spots on the abdomen shrink, and the brown lines expand. but the original brilliant colouration returns after the threat has receded.
Length | ♀ 5 mm; ♂ 4–5 mm. |
Habitat | Grassy and moist areas in open environments. |
Biology | Mating takes place face-to-face, without the male locking the chelicerae of the female, as shown in the picture below. The spider builds a horizontal orb web with an open hub. Some webs reportedly have a free zone (a missing sector) but this has not been observed in Singapore. |
Type Locality | Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia. |
Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah), Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, Japan, Australia. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; Juvenile (4272-121) of Tylorida magniventer (Tanikawa, 2005a)
Holotype
Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; ♂ (160838) of Sternospina concretipalpis (Schmidt & Krause, 1993a)
Holotype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Linyphia nicobarensis (Sankaran et al., 2017b)
Meta striata (Original description ♀)
Meta striata (Original description ♂)
Meta stellimicans (Original description ♀)
Simon, 1886c Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale: 449
Argyroepeira striata
Argyroepeira striata (♀)
Workman & Workman, 1894 Malaysian spiders: 19, pl. 19 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972
Tylorida striata (♂)
Simon, 1894a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier: 737, f. 809 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Tylorida striata (♀)
Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 Japanische Spinnen: 187, pl. 15, f. 420
Tylorida striata (♂)
Tylorida striata (♂)
Yaginuma, 1960 Spiders of Japan in colour: 72, f. 67
Tylorida striata (♀)
Chrysanthus, 1963 Spiders from south New Guinea V: 727, f. 1-4
Tylorida striata (♂)
Lee, 1966 [Spiders of Formosa (Taiwan)]: 56, f. 19e-f
Tylorida striata (♂)
Yaginuma, 1971 Spiders of Japan in colour (enlarged and revised edition): 72, f. 67
Tylorida striata (♂)
Chrysanthus, 1975 Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea II (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae): 30, f. 115-116
Linyphia nicobarensis (Original description ♀)
Tikader, 1977a Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean: 166, f. 4A-B
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Yoshida, 1978b On some Formosan spiders (2): 8, f. 7-10
Tylorida striata (♂)
Hu, 1984 The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests: 153, f. 157.1-3
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Yaginuma, 1986a Spiders of Japan in color (new ed: 129, f. 68.6
Tylorida striata (♀)
Song, 1987 Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae): 188, f. 147
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Davies, 1988b An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia: 288, f. 13
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 93, f. 10
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Chen & Gao, 1990 The Sichuan farmland spiders in China: 87, f. 109a-b
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Feng, 1990 Spiders of China in colour: 111, f. 86.1-6
Tylorida striata (♀)
Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 124, f. 118.1-2
Sternospina concretipalpis (Original description ♂)
Schmidt & Krause, 1993a Spinnen von den Komoren III: Tetragnathinae und Metinae (Araneida: Araneidae): 7, f. 1
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1994 Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators: 328, f. 1748-1750
Sternospina concretipalpis (♂)
Schmidt & Krause, 1994a Spinnen von den Komoren III: Tetragnathinae und Metinae (Araneida: Araneidae): 7, f. 3
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 530, f. 327a-j, 328a-f
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 223, f. 129A-B, E
Tylorida striata (♂)
Hu, 2001 Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China: 603, f. 411.1-3
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Zhu, Wu & Song, 2002 A revision of the Chinese species of the genus Tylorida (Araneae: Tetragnathidae): 27, f. 2A-H, 3A-E
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae: 304, f. 169A-H, 170A-E
Tylorida striata (♂♀, Synonym of Tylorida magniventer)
Tanikawa, 2005a Japanese spiders of the genus Tylorida (Araneae: Tetragnathidae): 151, f. 1-2, 5-6 doi:10.2476/asjaa.53.151
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Tanikawa, 2007c An identification guide to the Japanese spiders of the families Araneidae, Nephilidae and Tetragnathidae: 100, f. 338-339, 796-797
Tylorida striata (♂, Synonym of Sternospina concretipalpis)
Dimitrov, Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2008 Until dirt do us apart: on the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae): 51, f. 1A-D doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1698.1.3
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Álvarez-Padilla et al., 2009 Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data: 141, f. 8f, 9f doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00242.x
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Tanikawa, 2009 Hersiliidae: 410, f. 33-34
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea): 800, f. 114A-G, 115A-F, 116A-F, 117A-F, 118A-D doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00692.x
Tylorida striata (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 470, f. 215a-h
Tylorida striata (♀, Synonym of Tylorida stellimicans)
Kulkarni & Yadav, 2015 Bridging the distributional gap of Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) and new synonymy (Araneae: Tetragnathidae): 3, f. 1a-c, 3 doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4878
Linyphia nicobarensis (♀)
Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 96, f. 546-551, pl. 20
Tylorida nicobarensis (Transferred from Linyphia)
Tylorida striata (m♀, Synonym of T. nicobarensis)
Sankaran et al., 2017b On the genus Tylorida Simon, 1894 with the first record of the genus Atelidea Simon, 1895 from India (Araneae: Tetragnathidae, Leucauginae): 308, f. 1D, 2B, 7D-F, 12F-G, 13A-F, 14A-G doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.3
Singapore, Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah), Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, Japan, Australia.