Funny valentine

For the album, see Funny Valentine. For other uses, see Funny Valentine (disambiguation).

Funny valentine
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Macrobunidae
Genus:	Funny Lin & Li, 2022
Species:	F. valentine
Binomial name
Funny valentine Lin & Li, 2022

Funny valentine is a species of macrobunid spider in the monotypic genus Funny.[1]

Etymology

The specific name was described as "an arbitrary combination of letters" by its authors.[2] However, it was later described as a reference to the character of the same name from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.[3]

Description

Funny valentine measures around 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in body length. It possesses six eyes, with the anterior eye row being recurved. The oval-shaped cephalothorax and legs are pale yellow, while the abdomen is white. The body is sparsely covered in dark setae.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Funny was originally described as part of the family Dictynidae.[1] A 2023 study later moved it to the family Macrobunidae, which was elevated from its former rank of subfamily, as part of a phylogenetic reevaluation of "marronoid" spider taxonomy.[4]

Distribution

Funny valentine is only known from its type locality of Kangding in Sichuan, China. The holotype and paratypes were found under moss.[2]

See also

• List of organisms named after works of fiction

References

1. Lin et al. 2022, p. 208.
2. Lin et al. 2022, p. 210.
3. Dinsdale, Ryan (1 July 2024). "Scientists Name Newly Discovered Eyeless Spider After Blind Flying Wyvern From Monster Hunter". IGN. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
4. Gorneau et al. 2023, p. 10.

Works cited

• Lin, Yejie; Zhao, Huifeng; Koh, Joseph K H; Li, Shuqiang (24 July 2022). "Taxonomy notes on twenty-eight spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Asia". Zoological Systematics. 47 (3): 198–270. doi:10.11865/zs.2022303.
• Gorneau, Jacob A; Crews, Sarah C; Cala-Riquelme, Franklyn; Montana, Katherine O; Spagna, Joseph C; Ballarin, Francesco; Almeida-Silva, Lina M; Esposito, Lauren A (1 September 2023). Bond, Jason (ed.). "Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 7 (5). doi:10.1093/isd/ixad021. ISSN 2399-3421.