Pandava (spider)
| Pandava | |
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| Pandava laminata female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Titanoecidae |
| Genus: | Pandava Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
Pandava is a genus of
Taxonomy
In 1967, Pekka T. Lehtinen transferred the species Amaurobius laminatus, first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878, into his newly created genus Pandava as P. laminata, placing it in the family Titanoecidae.[1][2] Over 30 years later, in 2001, a further species, Pandava hunanensis, was added to the genus.[3] A major revision of Pandava in 2010 saw five new species being added.[4]
Diagnosis
Male spiders placed in the genus Pandava differ from other species of Titanoecidae in features of the
epigynum: the copulatory openings are more anterior.[4]
Species
As of July 2022[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted eleven species:[1]
- Pandava andhraca (Patel & Reddy, 1990) – India
- Pandava aruni Bodkhe, Uniyal, Kamble, Manthen, Santape & Chikhale, 2017 – India
- Pandava banna Lin & Li, 2022 – China
- Pandava ganesha Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 – India
- Pandava ganga Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 – India
- Pandava hunanensis Yin & Bao, 2001 – China
- Pandava kama Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 – India
- Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) (type species) – Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka to China, Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia, French Polynesia. Introduced to Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Hungary
- Pandava nathabhaii (Patel & Patel, 1975) – India
- Pandava sarasvati Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 – Myanmar, Thailand
- Pandava shiva Almeida-Silva, Griswold & Brescovit, 2010 – India, Pakistan
References
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Pandava Lehtinen, 1967", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 24 November 2021
- ^ Lehtinen, P.T. (1967), "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha", Annales Zoologici Fennici, 4: 199–468
- ^ Yin, C.M. & Bao, Y. H. (2001), "Two new species of the family Titanoecidae from Hunan Province (Arachnida: Araneae)", Journal of Changde Teachers University, Natural Science Edition, 13 (3): 58–61
- ^ , retrieved 2016-01-13