Pritha

Pritha is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

For the Hindu figure, commonly known as Pritha, see Kunti.

Pritha
Pritha garfieldi with prey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Pritha
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
P. nana
(Simon, 1868)
Species

25, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains twenty-five species mostly found in Asia, from Israel to China and the Philippines. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea:[1]

  • Pritha albimaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
  • Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha bakeri (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
  • Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 – China
  • Pritha condita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Azores, St. Helena
  • Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) – Central Asia
  • Pritha debilis (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
  • Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 – India
  • Pritha garciai (Simon, 1892) – Philippines
  • Pritha garfieldi Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
  • Pritha hasselti (Simon, 1906) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi)
  • Pritha heikkii Saaristo, 1978 – Seychelles
  • Pritha insularis (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
  • Pritha littoralis (Roewer, 1938) – New Guinea
  • Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (type) – Mediterranean, India
  • Pritha nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.)
  • Pritha pallida (Kulczyński, 1897) – Mediterranean
  • Pritha parva Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – France, Italy, Switzerland
  • Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) – India
  • Pritha sagittata Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – Italy, Switzerland, Croatia
  • Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha sundaica (Kulczyński, 1908) – Indonesia (Java)
  • Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) – Israel
  • Pritha vestita (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica)
  • Pritha zebrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar

References
  1. "Gen. Pritha Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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