- Nanoa
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Nanoa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Pimoidae Genus: Nanoa
Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005Species: N. enana Binomial name Nanoa enana
Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005Nanoa is a sister genus of Pimoa, in the spider family Pimoidae, containing the single species Nanoa enana.
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Etymology
Combined from Greek nanos "dwarf" and the ending -oa, which follows the other pimoid genera Pimoa and Weintrauboa. The epitheton enana of the only species means "dwarf" in Spanish.
Description
N. enana is the smallest known pimoid species, with a total body length of only 1.5 mm.
Distribution
N. enana occurs in northern California and southern Oregon.
Reference
- Gustavo Hormiga, Donald J. Buckle & Nikolaj Scharff. "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x. http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/content/publications/Hormiga%20Buckle%20&%20Scharff_2005.pdf.
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