Uahuka

Uahuka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Uahuka
Berland, 1935
Type species
Uahuka spinifrons
Berland, 1935
Species

See text.

Diversity
2 species

Uahuka is a genus of linyphiid spiders with two species that occur only on the Marquesas Islands.

H.W. Levi transferred it to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972, but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980.[1]

U. spinifrons has only been found on Ua Huka, U. affinis only on Hiva Oa,[2] a larger island about 50 km to the Southeast.

Name

The genus is named after the island Ua Huka on the Marquesas Islands. The describer, Lucien Berland, named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. Other names derived from islands in the Marquesas are Uapou and Nukuhiva.

The name of the species U. affinis is derived from the Latin affinis "allied, related"; spinifrons translates to "spiny front".

Species

References

  1. Platnick, N.I. (2006). The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History: Lyniphiidae
  2. Nishida, G.M. (2006). French Polynesia Spider Checklist (Preliminary) 2006 November 17 Checklist in .doc format

Further reading

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