Arachnura scorpionoides — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Araneae/Araneidae/Arachnura

At a glance

Occurrence records81

Data sources8

Biological traits1

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections2

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Arachnura scorpionoides's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility81 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University1 traits · 1 refs↗

World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources1 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF81 records

Environmental DNA2 datasets · 1 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Arachnura scorpionoides is a species of drag tail spider, in the genus Arachnura, native to Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Mauritius. A specimen of this species has recently been seen (January 2013) in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. The specimen laid over 65 eggs which later hatched, therefore making Arachnura scorpionoides a native species of Kenya.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesPekár 2014a

Defence1

Primary defenceCamouflage

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Arachnura scorpionoides has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections2

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type81 records

Wild obs. + sensor68

Museum / vouchered13

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO184 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy75% within 1 km

≤100 m 21≤1 km 12≤10 km 5>10 km 6

44 georeferenced · 24 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor68

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 13 records without

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence13

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions2 of 3 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Helsinki, FI	5
Cape Town, ZA	4
Royal Museum for Central Africalocation not on record	4

3 institutions · 13 of 13 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Arachnura scorpionoides was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found2

Studies independent surveys2

Countries1

Verifiable raw sequence linked1

Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median21.9 °C 19.1–24.7

Seasonal swing summer↔winter6.30 °C

Max temp (day)26.8 °C 24.1–29.6

Min temp (night)17.2 °C 13.8–20.6

Precipitation246 mm/mo 179–313

Air humidity62.1 % 59.4–64.8

Moisture balance89.3 mm/mo 45.1–134

Vapour deficit997 Pa 895–1,098

Wind speed2.20 m/s 1.70–2.70

Cloud cover45.2 % 29.5–61.0

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.