Araneus acachmenus Rainbow, 1916

W. Framenau, Volker, 2019, Generic and family transfers, and numina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (1), pp. 1-27 : 13

Araneus acachmenus Rainbow, 1916

Araneus acachmenus Rainbow, 1916a: 98-99, plate 21, figs 14-15. Bonnet 1955: 419.

Aranea acachmena Rainbow. Roewer 1942: 823.

Type material.

Holotype of Araneus acachmenus Rainbow, 1616: penultimate female, Gordonvale [17°05'S, 145°46', Queensland, AUSTRALIA], November 1913 (AM KS6505) (examined).

Remarks.

The holotype of Araneus acachmenus is a penultimate female with close affinities to Australian Araneidae currently listed in Eriophora , i.e. E. transmarina ( Keyserling 1865) and E. biapicata (L. Koch, 1871). Species in this group are somatically very similar and impossible to identify accurately without an investigation of fully developed male or female genitalia (e.g. Davies 1980). As more than one species in this group occurs at the type locality of A. acachmenus , Gordonvale (Queensland), the species is here considered a nomen dubium.