Patu (spider)

Patu is a genus of dwarf orb-weavers that was first described by Brian John Marples in 1951.[2] Two candidates for the "smallest species of spider", are in this genus, Patu digua[3] and Patu marplesi.[4]

Patu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Symphytognathidae
Genus: Patu
Marples, 1951[1]
Type species
P. vitiensis
Marples, 1951
Species

18, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eighteen species, found in Asia, Oceania, on the Seychelles, and in Colombia:[1]

  • Patu bicorniventris Lin & Li, 2009 – China
  • Patu bispina Lin, Pham & Li, 2009 – Vietnam
  • Patu digua Forster & Platnick, 1977 – Colombia
  • Patu eberhardi Forster & Platnick, 1977 – Colombia
  • Patu jidanweishi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
  • Patu kishidai Shinkai, 2009 – Japan
  • Patu marplesi Forster, 1959 – Samoa
  • Patu nigeri Lin & Li, 2009 – China
  • Patu qiqi Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
  • Patu quadriventris Lin & Li, 2009 – China
  • Patu saladito Forster & Platnick, 1977 – Colombia
  • Patu samoensis Marples, 1951 – Samoa
  • Patu shiluensis Lin & Li, 2009 – China, Laos
  • Patu silho Saaristo, 1996 – Seychelles
  • Patu spinathoraxi Lin & Li, 2009 – China
  • Patu vitiensis Marples, 1951 (type) – Fiji
  • Patu woodwardi Forster, 1959 – New Guinea
  • Patu xiaoxiao Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 – China
gollark: It is not.
gollark: If it *is* due to scraping that's pretty hilarious - TJ09 is banning me from access to what I need to stop scraping (the API) for scraping. It probably isn't *just* that though.
gollark: Basically, DC allows access via the API which returns machine-readable but lacking in information results and uses less bandwidth, or just downloading the pages and extracting data from them, which is worse but doesn't require API access and TJ09 may dislike it.]
gollark: Kind of. I can't access it on my home IP.
gollark: Done.

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Patu Marples, 1951". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Marples, B. J. (1951). "Pacific symphytognathid spiders". Pacific Science. 5: 47–51.
  3. Shear, William A. (1986). Spiders--webs, Behavior, and Evolution. Stanford University Press. pp. 425–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
  4. "Smallest spider". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.