Weintrauboa

Weintrauboa is a spider genus of the small family Pimoidae. The nearest relatives of Weintrauboa are in the genus Pimoa.[1]

Weintrauboa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pimoidae
Genus: Weintrauboa
Hormiga, 2003
Species

See text

Etymology

Named after Robert L. Weintraub of George Washington University.

Distribution

Both species are known from Russia and Japan.

Species
  • Weintrauboa chikunii (Oi, 1979) — Japan
  • Weintrauboa contortipes (Karsch, 1881) — Russia, Japan
  • Weintrauboa insularis (Saito, 1935) — Russia, Japan
  • Weintrauboa plana Xu & Li, 2009 — China
  • Weintrauboa pollex Xu & Li, 2009 — China
  • Weintrauboa yele Hormiga, 2008 — China
  • Weintrauboa yunnan Yang, Zhu & Song, 2006 — China

References
  1. http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Weintrauboa/classification/
  • Hormiga, G. (2003). Weintrauboa, a new genus of pimoid spiders from Japan and adjacent islands, with comments on the monophyly and diagnosis of the family Pimoidae and the genus Pimoa (Araneoidea, Araneae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139:261-281. PDF


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