Thunberga
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Thunberga Jäger, 2020[1]
Type species
Olios nossibeensis (Strand, 1907)
Species
29, see text

Thunberga is a genus of east African huntsman spiders. The genus was first described by Peter Jäger in 2020,^[2] and it has only been found on Madagascar and on Mayotte.^[1] It is named after the environmental activist Greta Thunberg.

As of April 2022^[update] it contains twenty nine species:^[1]

• T. aliena Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. befotaka Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. boyanslat Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. cala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. conductor Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. daraina Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. elongata Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. gosura Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. greta Jäger, 2020 – Madagascar
• T. jaervii Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. jyoti Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. mafira Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. malagassa (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
• T. malala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. mama Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. matoma Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. milloti Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. nossibeensis (Strand, 1907) (type) – Madagascar
• T. panusilem Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. paulyi Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. platnicki Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. rothorum Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. rugosa Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. samsagala Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. septifera (Strand, 1908) – Madagascar
• T. soruag Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. v-insignita Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar
• T. wasserthali Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar, Mayotte
• T. woodae Jäger, 2021 – Madagascar

• Olios
• Rhitymna
• List of Sparassidae species

• Jäger, P. (2021). "Enigmatic "love bites" and an indirect mating plug: revision of Thunberga Jäger, 2020 with description of new species (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Arachnology. 18 (7): 718–765. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.718.

• Nentwig, W.; Blick, T.; Gloor, D.; et al. (2019). "Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 58: 29–51. doi:10.30963/aramit5809.

• Jäger, P.; Kunz, D. (2005). "An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 85 (2): 163–213.

• Jäger, P. (2003). "Rhitymna Simon 1897: an Asian, not an African spider genus. Generic limits and descriptions of new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 82: 99–125.

• Strand, E. (1916). "Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 81 (A9): 1–153.