Paculla

Paculla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pacullidae
Genus:	Paculla Simon, 1887[1]
Type species
P. granulosa (Thorell, 1881)
Species
8, see text

Paculla is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Pacullidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.[2] Originally placed with the Tetrablemmidae, it was transferred to the Pacullidae after a 2017 genetic study.[3]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains eight species, found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea:[1]

• Paculla bukittimahensis Lin & Li, 2017 – Singapore
• Paculla cameronensis Shear, 1978 – Malaysia
• Paculla globosa Lin & Li, 2017 – Singapore
• Paculla granulosa (Thorell, 1881) (type) – New Guinea
• Paculla mului Bourne, 1981 – Borneo
• Paculla negara Shear, 1978 – Malaysia
• Paculla sulaimani Lehtinen, 1981 – Malaysia
• Paculla wanlessi Bourne, 1981 – Borneo

See also

• List of Pacullidae species

References

1. "Gen. Paculla Simon, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
2. Simon, E. (1887). "Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 7 (6): 193–195.
3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.