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Genus: Thunberga Jäger, 2020 | Family: Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872

Thunberga malagassa Strand, 1907

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Holotype: Museum Lübeck, Germany; type material destroyed 1942 f - (Jäger, 2020a)

Taxonomic References

Olios malagassus Strand, 1907a: 558 (Df) Original description

Olios malagassus Strand, 1916b: 71 (Dm)

"Olios" malagassus Jäger & Kunz, 2005: 183, f. 86-89 (m)

Thunberga malagassa Jäger, 2020a: 251, f. 23-25, 41-43 (f, T from Olios)

Thunberga malagassa Jäger, 2021a: 725, f. 15 (m)

References

Jäger, P. & Kunz, D. (2005). An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85(2): 163-213. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2020a). Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 4790(2): 245-260. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3 -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2021a). Enigmatic "love bites" and an indirect mating plug: revision of Thunberga Jäger, 2020 with description of new species (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 18(7): 718-765. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.718 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2021-03-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2021a
2020-06-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Jäger, 2020a
2020-06-11	Species transferred to new genus	Jäger, 2020a	Species transferred from Olios to Thunberga