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Genus: Trichonephila Dahl, 1911 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Trichonephila senegalensis schweinfurthi Simon, 1890

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Described:

Distribution: Yemen

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Nephila schweinfurthi Simon, 1890a: 105 (Df) Original description

Nephila senegalensis schweinfurthi Canard & Dresco, 1975: 790, f. 1-4 (f, subspecific name removed from S of N. sumptuosa)

Trichonephila senegalensis schweinfurthi Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila) [not explicitely, but 'automatically' together with the nominate form]

References

Canard, A. & Dresco, E. (1975). A propos de deux espèces de néphiles (Araneae, Argiopidae) de la région éthiopienne. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (Zool.) 216: 789-793. -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C. A., Cheng, R. C., Gregorič, M., Lupse, N., Lokovsek, T., Lemmon, E. M., Lemmon, A. R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syy082 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1890a). Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 10: 77-124. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-06-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Kuntner et al., 2019
2019-06-15	Species transferred to new genus	Kuntner et al., 2019		Species transferred from Nephila to Trichonephila