Platnickina

Platnickina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[2]

Platnickina
female Platnickina maculata from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Platnickina
Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1]
Type species
P. maculata
(Yoshida, 2001)
Species

11, see text

Species

As of June 2020 it contains eleven species, found worldwide:[1]

In synonymy:

  • P. adamsoni (Berland, 1934) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • P. blatchleyi (Bryant, 1945) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • P. cinerascens (Roewer, 1942) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)
  • P. hobbsi (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • P. insulicola (Bryant, 1947) = Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)
  • P. talmo (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) = Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  2. Koçak, A. Ö.; Kemal, M. (2008). "New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida". Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara, Miscellaneous Papers. 139–140: 1–4.

Further reading

  • Yoshida, H. (2001). "A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 50: 157–181.
  • Levi, H. W. (1957). "The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 112: 1–124.
  • Yoshida, H. (2009), "Uloboridae, Theridiidae, Ctenidae", in Ono, H. (ed.), The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species
  • Yoshida, H. (2003). The spider family Theridiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Japan. Arachnological Society of Japan. p. 224.
  • Song, D. X.; Zhu, M. S.; Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang. p. 640.

"Platnickina" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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