World Spider Catalog

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

Trichonephila turneri orientalis Benoit, 1964

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Described:

Distribution: Central, East Africa

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (125926) -

Taxonomic References

Nephila turneri orientalis Benoit, 1964b: 317 (Df) Original description

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

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1964b). La distribution géographique des Araneidae-Nephilinae africano-malgaches des genres Nephila Leach et Nephilengys Koch. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 69: 311-326. -- 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

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