''Wanniyala'' is a
genus of
cellar spiders native to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, first described by Huber & Benjamin in 2005. They have six eyes and four pair of legs and grow up to 2 mm in length. The abdomen is globular and males have a distinctive distal hinged sclerite on the procursus of genitalia.
The name is derived from the Sri Lankans native to the island that the first spiders were found on- the ''
Vedda people''- and their surname ''Wanniyala-Aetto''.
Species
, it contains nine species:
* ''Wanniyala agrabopath''
Huber & Benjamin, 2005 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala hakgala''
Huber & Benjamin, 2005 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala labugama''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala mapalena''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala mudita''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala ohiya''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala orientalis''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala upekkha''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
* ''Wanniyala viharekele''
Huber, 2019 — Sri Lanka
References
Pholcidae
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Spiders of Asia
Pholcidae genera
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