Envia garciai
| Envia garciai | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Microstigmatidae |
| Genus: | Envia Ott & Höfer, 2003 |
| Species: | E. garciai |
| Binomial name | |
| Envia garciai Ott & Höfer, 2003 | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 species | |
Envia garciai is a small (3 mm) pale yellow species of mygalomorph spider from Brazil. It is the only described species in genus Envia.
They live in soil and litter of undisturbed rainforest, where they reach up to 17% of the local spider abundance, with 37 individuals found on one m².
Name
According to the authors, the genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters. The species name is in honor of researcher Marcos Garcia.
References
- Ott, R. and Höfer, H. (2003): Envia garciai, a new genus and species of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazilian Amazonia. Iheringia 93: 373-379. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 15, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.