Nephilidae
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The Nephilidae are a spider family with 75 described species in four genera.
Distribution
Species of this family occur worldwide in the tropics.Genera
- Clitaetra Simon, 1889 (Africa, Madagascar, Sri Lanka)
- Herennia Thorell, 1877 (South Asia, Australia)
- Nephila Leach, 1815 (Pantropical)
- Nephilengys L. Koch, 1872 (Pantropical)
See also
References
- Kuntner, M. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of the Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae). Zoologica Scripta 35(1):19-62. [PDF]
- Kuntner, M. 2005. A revision of Herennia (Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae), the Australasian ‘coin spiders’. Invertebrate Systematics 19(5) 391–436. [PDF]
- Kuntner, M. & G. Hormiga. 2002. The African spider genus Singafrotypa (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology 30: 129-139. [PDF]
- Kuntner, M. 2002. The placement of Perilla (Araneae, Araneidae) with comments on araneid phylogeny. Journal of Arachnology 30: 281-287. [PDF]
- Agnarsson I. 2003a. Spider webs as habitat patches - The distribution of kleptoparasites (Argyrodes, Theridiidae) among host webs (Nephila, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 31(3): 344-349. [PDF]
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