Uahuka

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Uahuka

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Uahuka Berland, 1935

Diversity

2 species

Type species

Uahuka spinifrons
Berland, 1935

Species

See text.

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.^[1]

U. spinifrons has only been found on Ua Huka, U. affinis only on Hiva Oa,^[2] a larger island about 50 km to the Southeast.

1 Name
2 Species
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links

[edit] 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".

[edit] Species

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

[edit] References

^ Platnick, N.I. (2006). The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History: Lyniphiidae
^ Nishida, G.M. (2006). French Polynesia Spider Checklist (Preliminary) 2006 November 17 Checklist in .doc format

[edit] 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.