Platnickina
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| female Platnickina maculata from Okinawa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1] |
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Platnickina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[2]
Species[]
As of June 2020 it contains eleven species, found worldwide:[1]
- Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) – USA, Canada
- (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
- Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- (Berland, 1920) – East Africa
- (Yoshida, 2001) (type) – Japan
- Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – South America. Introduced to Ghana, Seychelles, China, Japan, Pacific Is.
- (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
- (Emerton, 1882) – USA
- (Zhu, 1998) – China
- (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
- Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran
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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ 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.
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