Ryuthela

Ryuthela is a spider genus in the family Liphistiidae.[1] This genus, as well as their closest relatives, Heptathela, formed when land masses from present-day Japan separated from the rest of Asia, forming islands in the late Miocene. Speciation of Ryuthela and Heptathela also occurred during this time, because of the further separation of islands, causing allopatric speciation.[2]

Ryuthela
Female Ryuthela nishihirai from Okinawa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mesothelae
Family: Liphistiidae
Genus: Ryuthela
Haupt, 1983
Type species
Heptathela nishihirai
Haupt, 1979
Species

See text.

Species list
  • Ryuthela iheyana Ono, 2002 — Ryukyu Islands
  • Ryuthela ishigakiensis Haupt, 1983 — Ryukyu Islands
  • Ryuthela nishihirai (Haupt, 1979) — Okinawa
  • Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 1997 — Ryukyu Islands
  • Ryuthela tanikawai Ono, 1997 — Ryukyu Islands

See also

References
  1. "Ryuthela". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  2. Xu, Xin; Liu, Fengxiang; Chen, Jian; Ono, Hirotsugu; Agnarsson, Ingi; Li, Daiqin; Kuntner, Matjaž (9 January 2016). "Pre-Pleistocene geological events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian margins". Journal of Biogeography. 43 (5): 1004–1019. doi:10.1111/jbi.12687.


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