Putaoa is a genus of East Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Linyphiidae, and was first described by G. Hormiga & L. Tu in 2008.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Taiwan and China: P. huaping, P. megacantha, and P. seediq.[1]

Putaoa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Putaoa
Hormiga & Tu, 2008[1]
Type species
P. huaping
Hormiga & Tu, 2008
Species

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Putaoa Hormiga & Tu, 2008". World Spider Catalog Version. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  2. ^ Hormiga, G.; Tu, L. (2008). "On Putaoa, a new genus of the spider family Pimoidae (Aeaneae) from China, with a cladistic test of its monophyly and phylogenetic placement". Zootaxa. 1792: 1–21. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1792.1.1.