Gen.
Nephila Leach, 1815 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01397 ]
N.B.: placed in the Araneidae by Wunderlich, 2004g: 960; firstly transferred from the Tetragnathidae to the Nephilidae by Kuntner, 2006: 24; for the current familial placement see also the note at the family.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2024-09-17
2024-09-17
Described in
Leach, 1815: 133 (type Aranea maculata Fabricius, 1793; gender feminine; syn. of Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793))
Leach, 1815: 133 (type Aranea maculata Fabricius, 1793; gender feminine; syn. of Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793))
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 8 | accepted |
| 11 | synonym |
| 1 | nomen nudum |
| 2 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Leach, W. E. (1815). Zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new and interesting animals. London, 2, 1-154 (Araneae, pp. 131-134). 
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-08 | Genus transferred to other family | Hormiga et al., 2023 | Nephila Leach, 1815 transferred to Araneidae |
| 2023-08-08 | Genus transferred to other family | Kuntner et al., 2023 | Nephila Leach, 1815 transferred to Nephilidae |
| 2017-05-08 | Genus transferred to other family | Dimitrov et al., 2017 | Nephila Leach, 1815 transferred to Araneidae |