Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila

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Matjaž Kuntner ,

* E-mail: kuntner@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America
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Jonathan A. Coddington

Affiliation Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., United States of America
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Reader Comments

I find this statement a rather bold one. I would be interested to know why Nephilia Edulis appears to have been discounted.

No competing interests declared.

It was - see figure 1.

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