Genus Phonognatha Simon, 1894

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phonognatha Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris Vol. 1 pp. 489-760. [748-749].

  Type species:

   Epeira graeffei Keyserling, 1865 by original designation.
• Singotypa Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris Vol. 1 pp. 489-760. [749].

  Type species:

   Epeira melania L. Koch, 1871 by original designation.

Introduction

Genus transferred to the Araneidae from the Tetragnathidae by Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga (2008).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

General References

Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 1-87 [25]

Kuntner, M., Coddington J.A. & Hormiga, G. 2008. Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24: 147-217 [190]

History of changes