| Uahuka | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Uahuka Berland, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Uahuka spinifrons Berland, 1935 |
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| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
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.
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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".