Uahuka

Taxobox
name = "Uahuka"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Linyphiidae
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genus = "Uahuka"
genus_authority = Berland, 1935
diversity_link = List of Linyphiidae species#Uahuka
diversity = 2 species
type_species = "Uahuka spinifrons"
type_species_authority = Berland, 1935
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subdivision_ranks = Species
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"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.Platnick, N.I. (2006). [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History: [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LINYPHIIDAE.html Lyniphiidae] ]

"U. spinifrons" has only been found on Ua Huka, "U. affinis" only on Hiva Oa,Nishida, G.M. (2006). French Polynesia Spider Checklist (Preliminary) 2006 November 17 [http://essigdb.berkeley.edu/checklists/FPSpiders2006nov21.doc Checklist in .doc format] ] 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".

pecies

* "Uahuka affinis" Berland, 1935 (Hiva Oa)
* "Uahuka spinifrons" Berland, 1935 (Ua Huka)

References

Further reading

* Levi, H. W. (1972). Taxonomic-nomenclatural notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with observations on "Anelosimus". "Trans. Am. microsc. Soc." 91: 533-538.
* Berland, L. (1935). Nouvelles araignées marquisiennes. "Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull." 142: 31-63.

External links

* [http://www.gwu.edu/~linygen/genera/Uahuka.html Diagnostic drawings] of both species