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Nephila, the Glossary

Nephila is a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave.^[1]

58 relations: Africa, American Museum of Natural History, Americas, Ancient Greek, Araneoidea, Araneomorphae, Argyrodes, Australasia, Brown tree snake, Burmese amber, Carotenoid, Cenomanian, Cenozoic, Cephalothorax, Chelicerae, Dominican amber, Ecdysis, Exoskeleton, Exposition Universelle (1900), Ferdinand Karsch, Freshwater, Queensland, Gasteracantha, Genus, Gondwana, Hannover Medical School, Indomalayan realm, Insecticide, Instar, Kleptoparasitism, Lamba (garment), Leucauge, Madagascar, Manuscript paper, Mating plug, Nephila antipodiana, Nephila cornuta, Nephila pilipes, North Island, Parasitism, Predation, Quinone, Sexual cannibalism, Spider, Spider silk, Synonym (taxonomy), Tasman Sea, Tephritidae, The Press, Tissue engineering, Trichonephila, ... Expand index (8 more) »
Extant Jurassic first appearances
Nephilidae
Pantropical spiders

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Araneoidea

Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed "araneoids", treated as a superfamily.

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Araneomorphae

The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders.

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Argyrodes

The genus name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "argyros" (άργυρος), meaning "silver", and the suffix "-odes", meaning "like".

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Australasia

Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis), also known as the brown catsnake, is an arboreal rear-fanged colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi to Papua), Papua New Guinea, and many islands in northwestern Melanesia.

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Burmese amber

Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar.

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Carotenoid

Carotenoids are yellow, orange, and red organic pigments that are produced by plants and algae, as well as several bacteria, archaea, and fungi.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Cephalothorax

The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.

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Chelicerae

The chelicerae are the mouthparts of the subphylum Chelicerata, an arthropod group that includes arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders.

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Dominican amber

Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.

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Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

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Ferdinand Karsch

Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist.

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Freshwater, Queensland

Freshwater is a suburb of Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

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Gasteracantha

Gasteracantha is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first named by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Hannover Medical School

The Hannover Medical SchoolAlthough the English spelling of the city name is "Hanover", this form of the name, using the German spelling of the city name, is used as the English-language name of the school, for example.

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Indomalayan realm

The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms.

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Insecticide

Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.

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Kleptoparasitism

Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.

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Lamba (garment)

A lamba is the traditional garment worn by men and women that live in Madagascar.

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Leucauge

Leucauge is a spider genus of long-jawed orb weavers, with over 160 species and fully pantropical distribution. Nephila and Leucauge are pantropical spiders.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Manuscript paper

Manuscript paper (sometimes staff paper in U.S. English, or just music paper) is paper preprinted with staves ready for musical notation.

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Mating plug

A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, sperm plug, vaginal plug, or sphragis (Latin, from Greek σφραγίς sphragis, "a seal"), is a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species.

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Nephila antipodiana

Nephila antipodiana, also known as the batik golden web spider, is a species of golden orb-web spider discovered in 1841 by Charles Athanase Walckenaer.

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Nephila cornuta

Nephila cornuta is a species of spider from the genus Nephila. Nephila and Nephila cornuta are Nephilidae.

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Nephila pilipes

Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver, Arachne.org.au) is a species of golden orb-web spider. Nephila and Nephila pilipes are Nephilidae.

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North Island

The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Quinone

The quinones are a class of organic compounds that are formally "derived from aromatic compounds by conversion of an even number of –CH.

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Sexual cannibalism

Sexual cannibalism is when an animal, usually the female, cannibalizes its mate prior to, during, or after copulation.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.

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Spider silk

Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

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Tephritidae

The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae.

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The Press

The Press (Te Matatika) is a daily newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand, owned by media business Stuff Ltd.

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Tissue engineering

Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biological tissues.

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Trichonephila

Trichonephila is a genus of golden orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila. Nephila and Trichonephila are Nephilidae.

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Trichonephila clavipes

Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider (a name shared with several others), is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forests and wooded areas ranging from the southern US to Argentina. Nephila and Trichonephila clavipes are Nephilidae.

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Trichonephila inaurata

Trichonephila inaurata, synonym Nephila inaurata, commonly known as the red-legged golden orb-weaver spider or red-legged nephila, is a species of spider of the genus Trichonephila. Nephila and Trichonephila inaurata are Nephilidae.

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Trichonephila plumipes

Trichonephila plumipes, the Pacific golden orb weaver, is a species of spider found in Australia, Indonesia and some Pacific Islands, which exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism through its sexual cannibalism behavior. Nephila and Trichonephila plumipes are Nephilidae.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephila

Also known as Giant wood spider, Golden orb spider, Golden orb web spider, Golden orb-web spider, Golden silk orb-weaver, Golden silk spider.

, Trichonephila clavipes, Trichonephila inaurata, Trichonephila plumipes, Type species, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Elford Leach, World Spider Catalog, Xanthurenic acid.

Nephila, the Glossary

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See also

Extant Jurassic first appearances

Nephilidae

Pantropical spiders

References