Weintrauboa

Taxobox
name = "Weintrauboa"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Pimoidae
genus = "Weintrauboa"
genus_authority = Hormiga, 2003
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Weintrauboa" is a spider genus of the small Pimoidae family. The nearest relatives of "Weintrauboa" are in the "Pimoa" genus.

Etymology

Named after Robert L. Weintraub of George Washington University.

Distribution

Both species are known from Russia and Japan.

pecies

* "Weintrauboa chikunii" (Oi, 1979)
* "Weintrauboa contortipes" (Karsch, 1881)

References

* Hormiga, G. (2003). "Weintrauboa", a new genus of pimoid spiders from Japan and adjacent islands, with comments on the monophyly and diagnosis of the family Pimoidae and the genus "Pimoa" (Araneoidea, Araneae) "Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" 139:261-281. [http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/content/publications/Hormiga%20ZJLS%202003.pdf PDF]