20.500.12556/DiRROS-28372 The Other Side of the Coin: Taxonomic Updates and Species Key of Herennia (Araneae: Nephilidae) Coin spiders of the genus Herennia Thorell, 1877 are species-rich nephilids distributed across South, East, and Southeast Asia and Australasia. They are notable for ladder-shaped arboricolous webs, extreme sexual size dimorphism, and complex sexual behaviors. The most recent revision recognized 11 species, only 4 of which were described from both sexes. Here, we present a taxonomic revision integrating new morphological and molecular data and recognize 14 species. We describe three new species—H. eva Kuntner from Sulawesi, H. maj Kuntner from Vietnam, and H. tsoi Kuntner et al. from Taiwan—and document previously unknown males of H. oz Kuntner, 2005 from Australia and H. tone Kuntner, 2005 from the Philippines. We also extend the known distribution of H. papuana Thorell, 1881 from New Guinea to Australia. Although several molecular species-delimitation analyses suggest H. oz and H. etruscilla Kuntner, 2005 may be conspecific, consistent and diagnostic morphological differences support their recognition as distinct species. We provide an updated identification key to all valid Herennia species. Additional undescribed endemics are likely to occur across the Asian mainland and the rapidly disappearing forests of Southeast Asian and Australasian islands. The genus’ biogeographic pattern, shaped by an ancestrally broad distribution spanning the Wallace Line, may reflect repeated loss and regain of ballooning, a hypothesis that warrants experimental and comparative testing. orbweb spiders Araneoidea taxonomy Wallace Line biogeography vicariance pajki taksonomija biogeografija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-03-16 10:23:17 2026-03-16 10:23:18 2026-03-24 03:50:16 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 13. 3. 2026; Soavtorji: Kuang-Ping Yu, Eva Turk, Klemen Čandek, Matjaž Gregorič, Gregory J. Anderson, Jonathan A. Coddington, Ren-Chung Cheng; str. 1-24 iss. 1, [article no.] 54 Vol. 18 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-20 595.44 1424-2818 10.3390/d18010054 271661059 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/1/54 1 c81627d0-2119-11f1-a455-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=41946 RAZ_Kuntner_Matjaz_2026.pdf RAZ_Kuntner_Matjaz_2026.pdf 1 C5EE8BC67214827FEEAC65B14254F2FD b2f7af57e5f24ed19f23dd79f242fce168074267de6c9287ca0c83cf2c239155 de5f1a09-2119-11f1-a455-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=41947 Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo 0 0 0