Uapou is a monotypic genus of South Pacific sheet weaver spiders containing the single species, Uapou maculata. It was first described by Lucien Berland in 1935,[2] and is found on Ua Pou, one of the Marquesas Islands.[1] It was transferred to the family Symphytognathidae by H. W. Levi in 1972,[3] but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980.[4] The World Spider Catalog places it in the family Linyphiidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Uapou Berland, 1935[1] |
| Species: | U. maculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Uapou maculata Berland, 1935
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Nomenclature
editThe genus is named after the island Ua Pou on the Marquesas Islands. The describer, Lucien Berland, named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s, including Uahuka and Nukuhiva. The species name is derived from Latin maculata, meaning "spotted".[2]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Uapou Berland, 1935". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ a b Berland, L. (1935). "Nouvelles araignées marquisiennes". Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 142: 31–63.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (1972). "Taxonomic-nomenclatural notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with observations on Anelosimus". Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 91 (4): 533–538. doi:10.2307/3225482. JSTOR 3225482. PMID 5079239.
- ^ Brignoli, P. M. (1980). "Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 35: 75–82.
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