Geratonephila Poinar 2012 (orb-weaving spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 2012. Descriptions, in Predatory behaviour of the social orb-weaver spider, Geratonephila burmanica n. gen., n. sp. (Araneae: Nephilidae) with its wasp prey, Cascoscelio incassus n. gen., n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber. Historical Biology 24:519-524

Parent taxon: Nephilidae according to M. Kuntner et al. 2018

See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Poinar 2012 and Wunderlich 2015

Sister taxa: Eonephila, Luxurionephila, Minutunguis, Nephila, Palaeonephila, Trichonephila

Subtaxa: Geratonephila burmanica

View classification

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Ron Buckley amber collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.