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Uapou
''Uapou'' is a monotypic genus of South Pacific sheet weaver spiders containing the single species, ''Uapou maculata''. It was first described by Lucien Berland in 1935, and is found on Ua Pou, one of the Marquesas Islands. It was transferred to the family Symphytognathidae by H. W. Levi in 1972, but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980. The World Spider Catalog places it in the family Linyphiidae. Nomenclature The genus is named after the island Ua Pou on the Marquesas Islands. The describer, Lucien Berland, named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s, including ''Uahuka'' and '' Nukuhiva''. The species name is derived from Latin ''maculata'', meaning "spotted". See also * List of Linyphiidae species (Q–Z) This article lists all described species of the spider family Linyphiidae as of May 14, 2020, from Q to Z. Some genera have been updated to the World Spider Catalog version 21.0 . ''Racata'' '' Racata'' Millidge, 1995 * '' Racata brevis'' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Linyphiidae Species (Q–Z)
This article lists all described species of the spider family Linyphiidae as of May 14, 2020, from Q to Z. Some genera have been updated to the World Spider Catalog version 21.0 . ''Racata'' '' Racata'' Millidge, 1995 * '' Racata brevis'' Tanasevitch, 2019 — Indonesia * '' Racata grata'' Millidge, 1995 — Krakatau * '' Racata laxa'' Tanasevitch, 2019 — Indonesia * '' Racata sumatera'' Tanasevitch, 2019 — Indonesia ''Rhabdogyna'' '' Rhabdogyna'' Millidge, 1985 * '' Rhabdogyna chiloensis'' Millidge, 1985 — Chile * '' Rhabdogyna patagonica'' (Tullgren, 1901) — Chile ''Ringina'' '' Ringina'' Tambs-Lyche, 1954 * '' Ringina antarctica'' (Hickman, 1939) — Crozet Islands ''Russocampus'' '' Russocampus'' Tanasevitch, 2004 * '' Russocampus polchaninovae'' Tanasevitch, 2004 — Russia ''Ryojius'' '' Ryojius'' Saito & Ono, 2001 * '' Ryojius japonicus'' Saito & Ono, 2001 — Japan * '' Ryojius nanyuensis'' (Chen & Yin, 2000) — China * '' Ryojius occidentalis'' Saito & Ono, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uahuka
''Uahuka'' is a genus of South Pacific sheet weavers endemic to the Marquesas Islands that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1935. It was transferred to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972, but the transfer was rejected in 1980. The genus is named after Ua Huka on the Marquesas Islands. It is one of several genera that Lucien Berland named after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. Other names derived from islands in the Marquesas are '' Uapou'' and '' Nukuhiva''. The specific name of ''U. affinis'' is derived from the Latin ''affinis'', meaning "allied, related". ''Spinifrons'' translates to "spiny front". While both species call the Marquesas Islands group home, each is endemic to a specific island: ''U. spinifrons'' has only been found on Ua Huka and ''U. affinis'' has only been found on Hiva Oa With its , Hiva Oa is the second largest island in the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Located at 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and in Portugal, from the superstition that if such a spider is seen running on you, it has come to spin you new clothes, meaning financial good fortune) is a family of very small spiders comprising 4706 described species in 620 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae. The family is poorly understood due to their small body size and wide distribution, new genera and species are still being discovered throughout the world. The newest such genus is ''Himalafurca'' from Nepal, formally described in April 2021 by Tanasevitch. Since it is so difficult to identify such tiny spiders, there are regular changes in taxonomy as species are combined or divided. * Money spiders are known for drifting through the air via a technique termed “ballooning”. * Within the agricult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nukuhiva
''Nukuhiva'' is a genus of spiders with a single species, ''Nukuhiva adamsoni'', that occurs only on the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. It is in the wolf spider family, Lycosidae. It has been found on Nuku Hiva and on Ua Huka, a smaller island about to the east. Taxonomy The genus was first described by Lucien Berland in 1935 and is named after the island Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands. Berland named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. Other names derived from islands in the Marquesas are ''Uapou'' and ''Uahuka ''Uahuka'' is a genus of South Pacific sheet weavers endemic to the Marquesas Islands that was first described by Lucien Berland in 1935. It was transferred to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972, but the transfer was rejected in 1980. The ge ...''. It was originally included in the family Pisauridae, though the shape of the male and female genitalia place it in the family Lycosidae (subfamily Lycosinae). Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Berland
Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () was a French entomologist and arachnologist Partial list of publications * 1925 : ''Faune de France. 10, Hyménoptères vespiformes, I, Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae''(Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1927 : « Les Araignées ubiquistes, ou à large répartition, et leurs moyens de dissémination », ''Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société de biogéographie'', 23 : 65–67. * 1929 : ''Faune de France. 19, Hyménoptères vespiformes, II, Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae'' (Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1929 : « Araignées recueillies par Madame Pruvot aux îles Loyalty », ''Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France'', LIV : 387–399. * 1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monotypic Taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, a monotypic genus is a genus in the special case where a genus and a single species are simultaneously described. In contrast, an oligotypic taxon contains more than one but only a very few subordinate taxa. Examples Just as the term ''monotypic'' is used to describe a taxon including only one subdivision, the contained taxon can also be referred to as monotypic within the higher-level taxon, e.g. a genus monotypic within a family. Some examples of monotypic groups are: Plants * In the order Amborellales, there is only one family, Amborellaceae and there is only one genus, '' Amborella'', and in this genus there is only one species, namely ''Amborella trichopoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ua Pou
Ua Pou (french: Ua Pou, North Marquesan: ''’uapou'') is the third largest of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. History Pre-European history Ua Pou is the only major island that was unified under a single monarch prior to the arrival of European explorers. Prior to the island's unification, reportedly about 1585, there is evidence that the tribes of Ua Pou were sometimes united in war with the tribes of Te I'i on Nuku Hiva against those of Tai Pi Vai. Despite the fact that tribes from both the eastern and western halves of Ua Pou were often united in war against each other, however, it appears that such differences among them were not considered when members of tribes from either side of the island sought refuge among the tribes of Te I'i on Nuku Hiva. The early Polynesian settlers of Ua Pou lived under rock overhangs, as excavations from 1982 onwards at the Anapua rock shelter, not far from the village of Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas Islands (; french: Îles Marquises or ' or '; Marquesan: ' ( North Marquesan) and ' ( South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. Their highest point is the peak of Mount Oave (french: Mont Oave, links=no) on Ua Pou island, at 1,230 m (4,035 ft) above sea level. Archaeological research suggests the islands were colonized in the 10th century AD by voyagers from West Polynesia. Over the centuries that followed, the islands have maintained a "remarkably uniform culture, biology and language". The Marquesas were named after the 16th century Spanish Viceroy of Peru, the Marquis of Cañete ( es, Marqués de Cañete, italic=unset) by navigator , who visited them in 1595. The Marquesas Islands constitute one of the five administrative divisions (') of French Polynesia. The capital of the Marquesas Islands' administrative subdivision is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphytognathidae
Symphytognathidae is a family of spiders with 90 described species in eight genera. They occur in the tropics of Central and South America and the Australian region (with Oceania). Exceptions include '' Anapistula benoiti'', '' Anapistula caecula'', and '' Symphytognatha imbulunga'', found in Africa, ''Anapistula ishikawai'', found in Japan, and '' Anapistula jerai'', found in Southeast Asia. The species '' Patu digua'' is considered to be one of the smallest spiders in the world with a body size of . Morphology Symphytognathidae are four-eyed spiders and are generally small in size. The opisthosoma is covered in long hairs. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: *''Anapistula'' Gertsch, 1941 — Asia, South America, Portugal, Oceania, Africa, North America, Jamaica *''Anapogonia'' Simon, 1905 — Indonesia *''Crassignatha'' Wunderlich, 1995 — Indonesia, Malaysia *''Curimagua'' Forster & Platnick, 1977 — Panama, Venezuela *''Globignatha'' Balogh & L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Walter Levi
Herbert Walter Levi (January 3, 1921 – November 3, 2014) was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany, educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England. He then received his higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi authored about 150 scientific papers on spiders and on biological conservation. He is the author of the popular Golden Guide ''Spiders and their Kin'', with Lorna Rose Levi (his wife) and Herbert Spencer Zim. Levi received the 2007 Eugene Simon Award from the International Society of Arachnology "for his immense influence on US spider research". He was an elected honorary member of the American Arachnological Society. Levi was an editorial board member for the ''Journal of Arachnology''. The pseudoscorpion genus ''Levichelifer'', the spider species ''Anisaedus levii'' and the whip spider species ''Phrynus levii''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of individual web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History. After Platnick's retirement in 2014, the Natural History Museum of Bern (Switzerland) took over the catalog, converting it to a relational database. , 50,151 accepted species were listed. The order Araneae Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species dive ... (spiders) has the seventh-most species of all orders. The existence of the World Spider Catalog makes spiders the largest taxon with an online listing that is updated regularly. It ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
