Paiwana

Paiwana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Paiwana Huber, 2018[1]
Type species
Pholcus pingtung (Huber & Dimitrov, 2014)
Species
Paiwana chengpoi (Huber & Dimitrov, 2014) Paiwana pingtung (Huber & Dimitrov, 2014)

Paiwana is a small genus of east Asian cellar spiders named after the Paiwan people. The genus was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[1] Males are distinguished by unique sclerotized modifications to the chelicerae, and females by the unique triangular epigynum shape.[2][3] As of April 2022^[update] it contains only two species, both native to Taiwan: P. chengpoi and P. pingtung.

See also

• Pholcus
• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. "Gen. Paiwana Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
2. Huber, B. A.; Dimitrov, D. (2014). "Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 253 (5): 394–403. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2014.04.001.
3. Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.