Biology:Thunberga
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Thunberga is a genus of east African huntsman spiders. The genus was first described by Peter Jäger in 2020,[1] and it has only been found on Madagascar and on Mayotte.[2] It is named after the environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
Species
As of April 2022[update] it contains twenty nine species:[2]
- T. aliena Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. befotaka Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. boyanslat Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. cala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. conductor Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. daraina Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. elongata Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. gosura Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. greta Jäger, 2020 – Madagascar
- T. jaervii Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. jyoti Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. mafira Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. malagassa (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
- T. malala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. mama Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. matoma Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. milloti Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. nossibeensis (Strand, 1907) (type) – Madagascar
- T. panusilem Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. paulyi Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. platnicki Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. rothorum Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. rugosa Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. samsagala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. septifera (Strand, 1908) – Madagascar
- T. soruag Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. v-insignita Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
- T. wasserthali Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar, Mayotte
- T. woodae Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
See also
References
- ↑ "Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Zootaxa 4790 (2): 245–260. 2020. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3. PMID 33055840. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15271.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gen. Thunberga Jäger, 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5796. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
Further reading
- "Enigmatic "love bites" and an indirect mating plug: revision of Thunberga Jäger, 2020 with description of new species (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Arachnology 18 (7): 718–765. 2021. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.718. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15712.
- "Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29–51. 2019. doi:10.30963/aramit5809. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/14954.
- "An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica 85 (2): 163–213. 2005. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/10006.
- "Rhitymna Simon 1897: an Asian, not an African spider genus. Generic limits and descriptions of new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica 82: 99–125. 2003. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/9532.
- "Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums" (in German). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81 (A9): 1–153. 1916. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/1714.
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