Nephilidae

Nephilidae
Female Nephila pilipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Araneoidea
Family: Nephilidae
Simon, 1894
Genera

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Diversity
7 genera

Nephilidae is a spider family commonly referred to as golden orb-weavers.[1] The various genera in the Nephilidae family were formerly placed in Tetragnathidae and Araneidae. All nephilid genera partially renew their webs.[2]

  1. ^ 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; Paterson, Adrian (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. PMID 30517732.
  2. ^ Kuntner, Matjaž (2005). "A revision of Herennia (Araneae : Nephilidae : Nephilinae), the Australasian 'coin spiders'". Invertebrate Systematics. 19 (5). CSIRO Publishing: 391–436. doi:10.1071/IS05024.

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