Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila komaci (Kuntner & Coddington, 2009)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-08
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042729]
  • Distribution: Tanzania (Zanzibar), South Africa, Madagascar
Type deposit provide information
  • Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; 1f (81/521) (Marais et al., 2013)
Taxonomic references
Nephila komaci Kuntner & Coddington, 2009: e7516, f. 2A-F (Dmf).
Trichonephila komaci Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila).
Trichonephila komaci Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 57, p. 53: 1 f., p. 57: 3 f. (f).
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M. & Coddington, J. A. (2009). Discovery of the largest orbweaving spider species: the evolution of gigantism in Nephila. PLoS One 4(10, e7516): 1-5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007516 download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a
2019-06-15 New taxonomic reference entry Kuntner et al., 2019 n/a
2019-06-15 Species transferred to new genus Kuntner et al., 2019 Species transferred from Nephila to Trichonephila