Weintrauboa
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Linyphiidae |
Genus: | Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003 |
Species | |
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Weintrauboa is a spider genus of the family Linyphiidae. The nearest relatives of Weintrauboa were at one time thought to be in the genus Pimoa.[1]
Etymology
[edit]Named after Robert L. Weintraub of George Washington University.
Distribution
[edit]Species are known from Russia, China and Japan.
Species
[edit]- Weintrauboa chikunii (Oi, 1979) — Japan
- Weintrauboa contortipes (Karsch, 1881) — Russia, Japan
- Weintrauboa insularis (Saito, 1935) — Russia, Japan
- Weintrauboa plana Xu & Li, 2009 — China
- Weintrauboa pollex Xu & Li, 2009 — China
- Weintrauboa yele Hormiga, 2008 — China
- Weintrauboa yunnan Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 — China
References
[edit]- Hormiga, G. (2003). Weintrauboa, a new genus of pimoid spiders from Japan and adjacent islands, with comments on the monophyly and diagnosis of the family Pimoidae and the genus Pimoa (Araneoidea, Araneae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139:261-281. PDF