ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny Jahr/Year: 2010 Band/Volume: 68 Autor(en)/Author(s): Framenau Volker W., Duperre Nadine, Blackledge Todd A., Vink Cor J. Artikel/Article: Systematics of the New Australasian Orb-weaving Spider Genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae) 79-111 Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79 68 (1) 79 – 111 © Museum für Tierkunde Dresden, eISSN 1864-8312, 28.02.2010 Systematics of the New Australasian Orb-weaving Spider Genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae) VOLKER W. FRAMENAU 1, 2, *, NADINE DUPÉRRÉ 3, TODD A. BLACKLEDGE 4 & COR J. VINK 5, 6 1 Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool DC, Western Australia, 6986, Australia [
[email protected]] 2 School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 3 American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA [
[email protected]] 4 Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3908, USA [
[email protected]] 5 Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Lincoln Science Centre, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand [
[email protected]] 6 Entomology Research Museum, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury 7647, New Zealand * Corresponding author Received 02.x.2009, accepted 16.xii.2009. Published online at www.arthropod-systematics.de on 28.ii.2010. > Abstract Backobourkia, a new Australasian genus of orb-weaving spider (family Araneidae Clerck, 1758) is proposed with Backobourkia heroine (L. Koch, 1871) as type species.