Nanoa
| Nanoa | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Pimoidae |
| Genus: | Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005 |
| Species: | N. enana |
| Binomial name | |
| Nanoa enana Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005 | |
Nanoa is a sister genus of Pimoa, in the spider family Pimoidae, containing the single species Nanoa enana.
Etymology
Combined from Greek nanos "dwarf" and the ending -oa, which follows the other pimoid genera Pimoa and Weintrauboa. The epitheton enana of the only species means "dwarf" in Spanish.
Description
N. enana is the smallest known pimoid species, with a total body length of only 1.5 mm.
Distribution
N. enana occurs in northern California and southern Oregon.
References
- Gustavo Hormiga, Donald J. Buckle & Nikolaj Scharff (2005). "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x.