Thunberga
| Thunberga | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Thunberga Jäger, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Olios nossibeensis (Strand, 1907) | |
| Species | |
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Thunberga is a genus of east African huntsman spiders. The genus was first described by Peter Jäger in 2020, and it has only been found on Madagascar and on Mayotte. It is named after the environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
Species
As of April 2022[update] it contains twenty nine species:
- 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
- 1 2 3 "Gen. Thunberga Jäger, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ Jäger, P. (2020). "Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Zootaxa. 4790 (2): 245–260. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3. PMID 33055840.
Further reading
- Jäger, P. (2021). "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. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.718.
- Nentwig, W.; Blick, T.; Gloor, D.; et al. (2019). "Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 58: 29–51. doi:10.30963/aramit5809.
- Jäger, P.; Kunz, D. (2005). "An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 85 (2): 163–213.
- Jäger, P. (2003). "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.
- Strand, E. (1916). "Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 81 (A9): 1–153.