Indoetra

Indoetra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Nephilidae
Genus:	Indoetra Kuntner, 2006 [1]
Species:	I. thisbe
Binomial name
Indoetra thisbe (Simon, 1903) [1]

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]

References

1. "Gen. Indoetra Kuntner, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2021-11-26.
2. 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 .
3. 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

• 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.