Pakawops
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Selenopidae
Name
Pakawops gen. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
- Selenops formosanus Kayashima 1943a[1]: 34, plate 17, fig. 2. Kayashima 1943b[2]: 65.
- Siamspinops Dankittipakul and Corronca 2009[3]: 69. Type species: Siamspinops spinosissimus, Dankittipakul and Corronca, 2009, by original designation.
Type species:
Selenops formosanus Kayashima, 1943a.
Etymology
Pakawops gen. n. comes from a combination of words and honors the indigenous peoples of Taiwan and refers to the indigenous selenopid known to occur on the island. Though there were many different indigenous languages of Taiwan, we chose the extinct East Formosan Basay language, as the type locality is within area the Basay peoples once inhabited. Basay: Pakaw = spider; Greek: ops = face, eye. We retain the traditional ending of selenopid genera of ops, which originally referred to the eye arrangement. The gender is masculine.
Diagnosis
Pakawops gen. n. can be separated from all other genera by the presence of 7 pairs of ventral spines on tibiae I and II, and 5 pairs on metatarsi I and II in combination with being found in Taiwan.
Remarks
Although we have not examined specimens of this species, the published descriptions (Kayashima 1943a[1], b[2]) show it to be clearly different from any other genus of Selenopidae. Kayashima (1943a)[1] mentions that it is similar to Selenops radiatus, though it differs in the ventral tibial and metatarsal spination and is much smaller.
Description
Total length 6.10. Cephalothorax: Carapace yellowish brown to grey wider than long; setae long and thin; chelicerae with 2 retrolateral teeth. Legs: Leg II longer than leg IV, leg III longest; tibial and metatarsal ventral spination 7–5.
Distribution
Taiwan, near Taipei (Map 1). It is likely found on other parts of the island.
Composition
A single species, Pakawops formosanus (Kayashima, 1943) comb. n.
Taxon Treatment
- Crews, S; Harvey, M; 2011: The spider family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Australasia and the Oriental Region ZooKeys, 99: 1-104. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kayashima I (1943a) Spiders of Formosa. Tokyo, pp. 1–70. [in Japanese]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kayashima I (1943b) Description of a new species of spider from Formosa. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 33: 65–66. (in Japanese)
- ↑ Dankittipakul P, Corronca J (2009) Siamspinops, a new selenopid genus from southeast Asia (Arachnida, Araneae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 9: 69e1–69e12.
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