Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Trichonephila

Trichonephila turneri orientalis (Benoit, 1964)

  • Rank: Subspecies
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2019-06-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:013986]
  • Distribution: Central, East Africa
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019); (125926)
Taxonomic references
Nephila turneri orientalis Benoit, 1964b: 317 (Df).
Trichonephila turneri orientalis Kuntner et al., 2019: 557 (T from Nephila) [not explicitely, but 'automatically' together with the nominate form].
References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1964b). La distribution géographique des Araneidae-Nephilinae africano-malgaches des genres Nephila Leach et Nephilengys Koch. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 69: 311-326. 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
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