Paiwana
Genus of spiders
Paiwana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pholcidae |
Genus: | Paiwana Huber, 2018[1] |
Type species | |
Pholcus pingtung (Huber & Dimitrov, 2014) | |
Species | |
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Paiwana is a small genus of east Asian cellar spiders named after the Paiwan people. The genus was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[1] Males are distinguished by unique sclerotized modifications to the chelicerae, and females by the unique triangular epigynum shape.[2][3] As of April 2022[update] it contains only two species, both native to Taiwan: P. chengpoi and P. pingtung.
See also
- Pholcus
- List of Pholcidae species
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Paiwana Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Dimitrov, D. (2014). "Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 253 (5): 394–403. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2014.04.001.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
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