Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila senegalensis nyikae (Pocock, 1898)

  • Rank: Subspecies
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2019-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013980]
  • Distribution: East Africa
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Nephila senegalensis nyikae Pocock, 1898e: 435 (Df).
Trichonephila senegalensis nyikae Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila) [not explicitely, but 'automatically' together with the nominate form].
References

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

Pocock, R. I. (1898e). The Arachnida from the regions of Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(12): 429-448, pl. 13. doi:10.1080/00222939808678518 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
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