Indoetra is a monotypic genus of south Asian golden orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Indoetra thisbe. Originally described as a subgenus of Clitaetra,[2] it was elevated to genus status in 2019.[3] It has only been found in Sri Lanka.[1]
| Indoetra | |
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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: | Nephilidae |
| Genus: | Indoetra Kuntner, 2006[1] |
| Species: | I. thisbe
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| Binomial name | |
| Indoetra thisbe | |
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Indoetra Kuntner, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ^ Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux" [Descriptions of new arachnids]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (in French). 47: 21–39. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25299.
- ^ Kuntner, M.; Hamilton, C. A.; Cheng, R.-C.; et al. (2019). "Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism". Systematic Biology. 68 (4): 555–572. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy082. PMC 6568015. PMID 30517732.
Further reading
edit- Kuntner, M. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 35 (1): 19–62. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00220.x.
- Dimitrov, D.; Benjamin, S. P.; Hormiga, G. (2009). "A revised phylogenetic analysis for the spider genus Clitaetra Simon, 1889 (Araneae, Araneoidea, Nephilidae) with the first description of the male of the Sri Lankan species Clitaetra thisbe Simon, 1903". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 159 (6): 301–323. doi:10.3099/0027-4100-159.6.301.
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