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Trichonephila fenestrata

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Species of spider

Trichonephila fenestrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Trichonephila
Species: T. fenestrata
Binomial name
Trichonephila fenestrata
(Thorell, 1859)
Subspecies
  • Trichonephila fenestrata fenestrata
  • Trichonephila fenestrata fuelleborni (Dahl, 1912)
  • Trichonephila fenestrata venusta (Blackwall, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Nephila fenestrata Thorell, 1859

Trichonephilia fenestrata is a species of nephilid spider known from Africa. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1859 as Nephila fenestrata, and was later moved to Trichonephila when it was elevated to genus status by Kuntner in 2019. Three subspecies are known from different parts of Africa. Males of this species often autotomize their legs as a counter-adaptation to the sexual cannibalism of females.

References

  1. Tamerlan Thorell (1859). "Nya exotiska Epeirider". Öfversigt Af Kongl. Vetenskaps- Akademiens Forhandlingar (in Swedish). 16: 299–304.
  2. ^ "Trichonephila fenestrata". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  3. "Trichonephilia fenestrata (Thorell, 1859)". World Spider Catalog. 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  4. "Trichonephila fenestrata (Hairy Golden Orb-weaver) - Spider Identification & Pictures". spiderid.com. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. Kuntner, Matjaž; Hamilton, Chris A; Cheng, Ren-Chung; Gregorič, Matjaž; Lupše, Nik; Lokovšek, Tjaša; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R; Agnarsson, Ingi; Coddington, Jonathan A; Bond, Jason E (1 July 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. PMC 6568015. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  6. Neumann, Rainer; Schneider, Jutta M. (2020). "Males sacrifice their legs to pacify aggressive females in a sexually cannibalistic spider". Animal Behaviour. 159. Elsevier BV: 59–67. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.11.003. ISSN 0003-3472.
Taxon identifiers
Nephila fenestrata


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