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 araneomorph spiders in the family Titanoecidae.[1]
Taxonomy[edit]
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[edit]
Male spiders placed in the genus Pandava differ from other species of Titanoecidae in features of the palpal bulb: the tegular process (a projection from the tegulum) is smaller; the median apophysis (one of the hardened plates making up the palpal bulb) is thumb-shaped. Females differ in features of the epigynum: the copulatory openings are more anterior.[4]
Species[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Almeida-Silva, L.M.; Griswold, C.E. & Brescovit, A.D. (2010), "Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa", Zootaxa, 2630: 30–56, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.2, retrieved 2016-01-13