Trichonephila

Trichonephila
Female Trichonephila clavipes
Female T. inaurata madagascariensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nephilidae
Genus: Trichonephila
Dahl, 1911
Type species
T. clavipes
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Species

13, see text

Trichonephila is a genus of golden orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila. Trichonephila was elevated to a genus by Kuntner et al. in 2019.

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