Uapou

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

See text.

Diversity
1 species

Uapou is a genus of linyphiid spiders with one species that occurs only Ua Pou, one of the Marquesas Islands.

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

Name

The genus is named after the island Ua Pou 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 Uahuka and Nukuhiva.

The species name is derived from Latin maculata "spotted".

Species

References

  1. Platnick, N.I. (2006). The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History: Lyniphiidae

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