Platnickina is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[2]
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| female Platnickina maculata from Okinawa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Platnickina Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. maculata (Yoshida, 2001)
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Description
editAs comb-footed spiders, Platnickina have two body segments (prosoma and opisthosoma) and eight legs. The tarsi of the final leg pair have rows of strong, serrated bristles ventrally.[3]
Platnickina can be distinguished from other theridiid genera by the presence of trichobothria on the metatarsi of the third leg pair, the opisthosoma not being higher than it is long, and the absence of a colulus. Also, the European species at least are bright yellow with black mottling.[4]
Species
editAs of June 2020[update] it contains eleven species, found worldwide:[1]
- Platnickina alabamensis (Gertsch & Archer, 1942) – USA, Canada
- Platnickina antoni (Keyserling, 1884) – USA
- Platnickina fritilla Gao & Li, 2014 – China
- Platnickina kijabei (Berland, 1920) – East Africa
- Platnickina maculata (Yoshida, 2001) (type) – Japan
- Platnickina mneon (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – South America. Introduced to Ghana, Seychelles, China, Japan, Pacific Is.
- Platnickina nigropunctata (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
- Platnickina punctosparsa (Emerton, 1882) – USA
- Platnickina qionghaiensis (Zhu, 1998) – China
- Platnickina sterninotata (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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "araneae - Key to families". araneae.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
- ^ "araneae - Theridiidae". araneae.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
Further reading
edit- Yoshida, H. (2001). "A revision of the Japanese genera and species of the subfamily Theridiinae (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Acta Arachnologica. 50 (2): 157–181. doi:10.2476/asjaa.50.157.
- 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.
External links
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"Platnickina". The Encyclopedia of Life.
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