Trichonephila

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Trichonephila
FloridaOrbWebSpider NephilaClavipes.jpg
Female Trichonephila clavipes
Scientific classification e
: [[Template:Taxonomy/Trichonephila]]
Dahl, 1911[1]
Type species
T. clavipes
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Species

12, see text

Trichonephila is a genus of orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila.[2] Trichonephila was elevated to the level of genus (new rank) by Kuntner et al in 2019.[3]

Species[edit]

As of August 2019 it contains twelve species and fourteen subspecies, found in Africa, Oceania, Asia, and over all the Americas:[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Trichonephila Dahl, 1911". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. Dahl, F. (1911). "Die Verbreitung der Spinnen spricht gegen eine frühere Landverbindung der Südspitzen unsrer Kontinente". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 37: 270–282.
  3. Kuntner, Matjaž; Hamilton, Chris A.; Cheng, Ren-Chung; Gregorič, Matjaž; Lupše, Nik; Lokovšek, Tjaša; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R.; Agnarsson, Ingi; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Bond, Jason E. (2019). "Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism". Systematic Biology. 68 (4): 555–72. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy082. PMID 30517732. S2CID 54562033.

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