Patu (genus)

Patu (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Patu"


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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Symphytognathidae
subfamilia =
genus = "Patu"
genus_authority = Marples, 1951
diversity_link = List of Symphytognathidae species#Patu
diversity = 8 species
type_species =
type_species_authority =
range_

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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Patu" is a genus of spiders in the family Symphytognathidae that occurs in Colombia and Oceania. "Patu digua" is the smallest species of spider described to date.

Name

The name is possibly derived from some Polynesian term like the Māori "patu" (a type of short-handed club), Samoan "patupatu" (with a lumpy shape), "fatu" (a stone or another hard object) or "patutu" (to strike or hit something or someone). These terms all imply a rounded shape and hardness (enabling one to strike or hammer something with such an object).

pecies

* "Patu digua" Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
* "Patu eberhardi" Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
* "Patu marplesi" Forster, 1959 (Samoa)
* "Patu saladito" Forster & Platnick, 1977 (Colombia)
* "Patu samoensis" Marples, 1951 (Samoa)
* "Patu silho" Saaristo, 1996 (Seychelles)
* "Patu vitiensis" Marples, 1951 (Fiji)
* "Patu woodwardi" Forster, 1959 (New Guinea)


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