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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Trichonephila  Dahl, 1911   2 species

Trichonephila clavata (L. Koch, 1878)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): India to Japan, Russia (Far East). Introduced to Azerbaijan, USA
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"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Azerbaijan   (Zamani et al., 2025b) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Kim J P, Kim S D, Lee Y B (1999) A revisional study of the Korean spiders, family Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Arachnida: Araneae). Korean Arachnology 15: 41-100 pdf

Kim S T, Lee S Y (2013) Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Mimetidae, Uloboridae, Theridiosomatidae, Tetragnathidae, Nephilidae, Pisauridae, Gnaphosidae. Spiders. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(23): 1-183 pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. pdf

Tanikawa A (1999) Hersiliidae. Nephilidae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 149, 403-463 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M (2025b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20: 132-137 pdf

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