Recent nephilid treatments by M. Kuntner and colleagues
with pdfs and phylogenetic matrices
in Nexus (nex), Winclada (winc) and Hennig (ss) formats
- Kuntner, M., S. Kralj-Fišer, J. M. Schneider, & D. Li. In Press. Mate plugging via genital mutilation in nephilid spiders: an evolutionary hypothesis. Journal of Zoology.
- Kuntner, M., C. R. Haddad, G. Aljančič & A.
Blejec. 2008. Ecology and web allometry of Clitaetra irenae, an arboricolous African orb-weaving spider (Araneae, Araneoidea, Nephilidae). Journal of Arachnology 36(3): 583-594. [PDF] [Journal Cover]
- Kuntner, M., J.A. Coddington & G. Hormiga.
2008. Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae,
Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics
24(2):147-217. [PDF]
- Kuntner, M. 2007. A monograph of Nephilengys,
the pantropical ‘hermit spiders’ (Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae).
Systematic Entomology 32(1):95-135. [PDF][supplementary
material: matrix][supplementary
material: specimens
list]
- Kuntner, M. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics
of the Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae).
Zoologica Scripta 35(1):19-62. [PDF][matrix
nexus][matrix winclada][matrix
hennig]
- Kuntner, M. 2005. A revision of Herennia
(Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae), the Australasian ‘coin spiders’.
Invertebrate Systematics 19(5) 391–436. [PDF][matrix
nexus][matrix winclada][matrix
hennig]
- Kuntner, M. 2005. Systematics and Evolution
of Nephilid Spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae New Rank). Doctoral thesis, George
Washington University, USA. 896 pp.
- Kuntner, M. 2002. The placement of Perilla
(Araneae, Araneidae) with comments on araneid phylogeny. Journal of
Arachnology 30: 281-287. [PDF]
- Kuntner, M. & G. Hormiga. 2002. The
African spider genus Singafrotypa (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal
of Arachnology 30: 129-139. [PDF]
Nephilid publications in prep.
- Kuntner, M. IN PREP. Nephila
– A World Revision of the Golden Orb-Weaving Spiders. Monograph manuscript.
Nephilid bibliography
Searches for literature in any way relevant to nephilid spiders yielded more
than a thousand references, which are presented here but not carefully filtered
for duplicates and errors. This nephilid bibliography with 1,122 references (updated in May 2007) is
available as EndNote and text files, please download them from the links below:
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