Biology:Pitharatus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pitharatus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Pitharatus
Simon, 1895[1]
Species:
P. junghuhni
Binomial name
Pitharatus junghuhni
(Doleschall, 1859)
Synonyms[1]

Epeira junghuhni Doleschall, 1859[2]

Pitharatus is a genus of Southeast Asian orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Pitharatus junghuhni. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1895 to contain the single species moved from the now obsolete "catch-all" genus Epeira.[3] It has only been found in Malaysia and Indonesia.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Pitharatus Simon, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/383. Retrieved 2019-05-14. 
  2. Doleschall, C. L. (1859). "Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel". Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae 5: 1–60. 
  3. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell00sim. 

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