Naatlo

Naatlo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiosomatidae
Genus:	Naatlo Coddington, 1986[1]
Type species
N. sutila Coddington, 1986
Species
7, see text

Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]

Behaviour

They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s^2.[4]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:[1]

• Naatlo fauna (Simon, 1897) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
• Naatlo maturaca Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
• Naatlo mayzana Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
• Naatlo serrana Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
• Naatlo splendida (Taczanowski, 1874) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. [note, date wrong in several works as 1879]
• Naatlo sutila Coddington, 1986 (type) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
• Naatlo sylvicola (Hingston, 1932) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana

See also

• List of Theridiosomatidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Naatlo Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
2. Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.
3. Yeager, Ashley (Nov 1, 2022). "Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do". The Scientist. Retrieved Dec 30, 2022.
4. Alexander, Symone; Bhamla, Saad (2020). "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs". Current Biology. 30 (16): 928–929. Bibcode:2020CBio...30.R928A. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.076. PMID 32810449.

Further reading

• Wienskoski, E. (2010). "The genus Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae): distribution and taxonomic history". Revista Brasileira de Biociências. 8 (2): 131–138.
• Rodrigues, E. N. L.; Lise, A. A. (2008). "Description of two new species of Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) from Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 25 (2): 299–308. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752008000200017.
• Archer, A. F. (1953). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae)". American Museum Novitates (1622): 1–27.
• Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2017). "On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species". Zootaxa. 4341 (3): 375–399. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. PMID 29245661.