Pritha

For the Hindu figure, commonly known as Pritha, see Kunti.
Pritha
Pritha garfieldi with prey
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Pritha
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Species

See text.

Pritha is a genus of spiders, in the family Filistatidae (crevice weavers). Most of its 22 described species are found in Asia, from Israel to China and the Philippines. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea.

Species

As of May 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Pritha albimaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
  • Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha bakeri (Berland, 1938) – New Hebrides
  • Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 – China
  • Pritha condita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Azores, St. Helena
  • Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) – Central Asia
  • Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 – India
  • Pritha garciai (Simon, 1892) – Philippines
  • Pritha garfieldi Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
  • Pritha hasselti (Simon, 1906) – Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi
  • Pritha heikkii Saaristo, 1978 – Seychelles
  • Pritha insularis (Thorell, 1891) – Nicobar Is.
  • Pritha littoralis (Roewer, 1938) – New Guinea
  • Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (type species) – Mediterranean
  • Pritha nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) – Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.
  • Pritha pallida (Kulczy?ski, 1897) – Mediterranean
  • Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) – India
  • Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha sundaica (Kulczy?ski, 1908) – Java
  • Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) – Israel
  • Pritha zebrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Pritha Lehtinen, 1967", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-05-06
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