Sestakovaia is a small genus of liocranid sac spiders first described by Alireza Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik in 2021.[2] As of December 2021 it contains only two species: S. annulipes and S. hyrcania.[1] This genus is named after the Slovakian arachnologist Anna Šestáková.[3]

Sestakovaia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Liocranidae
Genus: Sestakovaia
Zamani & Marusik, 2021[1]
Type species
S. hyrcania
Zamani & Marusik, 2021
Species
  • Sestakovaia annulipes (Kulczyński, 1897)
  • Sestakovaia hyrcania Zamani & Marusik, 2021

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Sestakovaia Zamani & Marusik, 2021". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
  2. ^ Zamani, A.; Marusik, Y. M. (2021). "A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran". ZooKeys (1054): 95–126. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1054...95Z. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1054.70408. PMC 8355012. PMID 34393565.
  3. ^ Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.

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