World Spider Catalog

Genus: Herennia Thorell, 1877 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Herennia maj Kuntner, 2026

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066703

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Described:

Distribution: Vietnam

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia f - (Kuntner et al., 2026)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 1f (ARA1868) - (Kuntner et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Herennia maj Kuntner in Kuntner et al., 2026: 15, f. 4a, 5e, 9g (Df) Original description

References

Kuntner, M., Yu, K. P., Turk, E., Čandek, K., Gregorič, M., Anderson, G. J., Coddington, J. A. & Cheng, R. C. (2026). The other side of the coin: taxonomic updates and species key of Herennia (Araneae: Nephilidae). Diversity 18(54): 1-24. doi: 10.3390/d18010054 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Kuntner et al., 2026
2026-01-26	New species inserted	Kuntner et al., 2026

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