| Socca pustulosa | |
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| The camouflage master of Socca pustolosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Socca |
| Species: | S. pustulosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Socca pustulosa (Walckenaer, 1841)
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| Synonyms | |
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Eriophora pustulosa | |
Socca pustulosa is a Orb-weaver spider species in the family Araneidae (Clerck, 1757), and it was first described by a French scientist Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1841 from Tasmania, Australia, but later on when Walckenaer examined the specimen collected from New Zealand and renamed it as a different species- Epeira verrucosa.[1][2] Until 1917, Dalmas reviewed the Australian pustulosa and New Zealand verrucosa and realized they were the same species.[1] Although S. pustulosa has been accepted for some time in the genus of Eriophora (E. pustulosa), the evidence supporting its placement within this genus were not fully convincing.[1] Therefore, an alternative view was proposed in 2022- a new genus established to accommodate pustulosa along with 11 other spider species from Australia; the diagnostic test based on haplotype analysis and systematic morphology study by arachnologists and found the anatomical features of male pedipalp terminal apophysis differs from other orb-web species.[3][4]
- ^ a b c Court, J.D.; Forster, R.R. (30 March 1988). The Spiders of New Zealand: part VI. Otago Museum Bulletin. pp. 6:68–124.
- ^ Paquin, Pierre; Vink, Cor. J.; Duperre, Nadine; Entomology Research Museum (Apr 2010). Spiders of New Zealand Annotated Family Key and Species List. Manaaki Whenua Press. pp. 54–67. ISBN 9780478347050.
- ^ Framenau, V.W.; Vink, C.J.; McQuillan, B.N.; Simpson, A.H. (2021). "A new genus for a large, endemic orb-weaving spider (Araneae, Araneidae) from New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 49 (2): 129–142. doi:10.1080/03014223.2021.1951309.
- ^ Framenau, Volker W.; de S. Castanheira, Pedro; Vink, Cor J. (2022-10-02). "Taxonomy and systematics of the new Australo-Pacific orb-weaving spider genus Socca (Araneae: Araneidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 49 (4): 263–334. doi:10.1080/03014223.2021.2014899. ISSN 0301-4223.