Thunberga
| Thunberga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Thunberga Jäger, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Olios nossibeensis (Strand, 1907)
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Thunberga is a genus of east African huntsman spiders. The genus was first described by Peter Jäger in 2020,[2] and it has only been found on Madagascar and on Mayotte.[1] It is named after the environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
Species
[edit]As of April 2022[update] it contains twenty nine species:[1]
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "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.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.