Patu (spider)
Patu | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Symphytognathidae |
Genus: | Patu Marples, 1951 |
Species | |
See text. | |
Diversity | |
8 species |
Patu is a genus of spiders in the family Symphytognathidae that occurs in Colombia and Oceania. Two candidates for the "smallest species of spider", are in this genus, Patu digua[1] and Patu marplesi.[2]
Species
- Patu digua Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
- Patu eberhardi Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
- Patu marplesi Forster, 1959 (Samoa)
- Patu saladito Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
- Patu samoensis Marples, 1951 (Samoa)
- Patu silho Saaristo, 1996 (Seychelles)
- Patu vitiensis Marples, 1951 (Fiji)
- Patu woodwardi Forster, 1959 (New Guinea)
References
- ↑ William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, Behavior, and Evolution. Stanford University Press. pp. 425–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
- ↑ "Smallest spider". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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