Zygiella carpenteri

Zygiella carpenteri is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae.[1]

Zygiella carpenteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Zygiella
Species:
Z. carpenteri
Binomial name
Zygiella carpenteri
(Archer, 1951)[1]

In 2015, the genus Parazygiella was determined to be a taxonomic synonym of Zygiella, so Parazygiella carpenteri and the other species of Parazygiella were moved to the genus Zygiella.[2][3]

References

  1. "Taxon details Zygiella carpenteri Archer, 1951", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2018-05-14
  2. Matjaž Gregorič; Ingi Agnarsson; Todd A. Blackledge; Matjaž Kuntner (2015). "Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (2): 225–243. doi:10.1111/zoj.12281.
  3. "World Spider Catalog, Parazygiella, Genus details". Retrieved 2018-05-02.


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