Species list, Checklist of Order Araneae (Spider) for West New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Araneae Clerck, 1757 (Spider)
and region West New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea)

Class	Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 Arachnids	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Micrura Ehrenberg, 1831	4 5 5	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Megoperculata Börner, 1902	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Araneae Clerck, 1757 Spider, Spiders, True Spiders	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for West New Britain
3 Families width 4 Species

Araneidae Simon, 1895	Golden orb web spiders	2	Species	Taxom
Sparassidae (Bertkau, 1872)	Giant crab spiders	1	Species	Taxom
Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866	Elongated Orb Weavers	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for West New Britain
4 Genera with 4 Species

Argiope Audouin, 1871	Garden orbweavers	1	Species	Taxom
Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1842	Spiny Backed Orb Weaver	1	Species	Taxom
Heteropoda Latreille, 1767		1	Species	Taxom
Nephila Leach, 1793	Banana spiders	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for West New Britain
4 Species

Argiope picta L. Koch, 1871
Gasteracantha taeniata Charles Atha..., 1842
Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus, 1767)	⇒ Heteropoda simplex Jäger & Ono, 2000
Nephila pilipes Fabricius, 1793	Giant golden orb weaver

Subnodes of Araneae with occurrences in West New Britain

Suborder

Araneomorphae
Smith, 1902
True Spiders

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Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

Araneae (Clerck 1757)

Links, sources and further information

Araneae at artfakta.se
Araneae at biodiversity.org.au
Araneae at dyntaxa.se
Araneae at gbif.org
Araneae at irmng.org
Araneae at itis.gov
Araneae at marinespecies.org