Nanoa

Genus of spiders

Nanoa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pimoidae
Genus: Nanoa
Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1]
Species:
N. enana
Binomial name
Nanoa enana
Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1]

Nanoa is a sister genus of Pimoa, in the spider family Pimoidae, containing the single species Nanoa enana.

Etymology

Combined from Greek nanos "dwarf" and the ending -oa, which follows the other pimoid genera Pimoa and Weintrauboa. The name enana of the only species means "dwarf" in Spanish.

Description

N. enana is the smallest known pimoid species, with a total body length of only 1.5 mm.

Distribution

N. enana occurs in northern California and southern Oregon.

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  • Gustavo Hormiga, Donald J. Buckle & Nikolaj Scharff (2005). "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x.
Taxon identifiers
Nanoa