Pritha
| Pritha | |
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| Pritha garfieldi with prey | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Filistatidae |
| Genus: | Pritha Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. nana (Simon, 1868)
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| Species | |
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25, see text | |
Pritha is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
Species
As of May 2019[update] it contains twenty-five species mostly found in Asia, from Israel to China and the Philippines. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea:[1]
- Pritha albimaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
- Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 – China
- Pritha bakeri (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
- Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 – China
- Pritha condita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Azores, St. Helena
- Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) – Central Asia
- Pritha debilis (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
- Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 – India
- Pritha garciai (Simon, 1892) – Philippines
- Pritha garfieldi Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
- Pritha hasselti (Simon, 1906) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi)
- Pritha heikkii Saaristo, 1978 – Seychelles
- Pritha insularis (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
- Pritha littoralis (Roewer, 1938) – New Guinea
- Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (type) – Mediterranean, India
- Pritha nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) – India (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.)
- Pritha pallida (Kulczyński, 1897) – Mediterranean
- Pritha parva Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – France, Italy, Switzerland
- Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) – India
- Pritha sagittata Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – Italy, Switzerland, Croatia
- Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 – China
- Pritha sundaica (Kulczyński, 1908) – Indonesia (Java)
- Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) – Israel
- Pritha vestita (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica)
- Pritha zebrata (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Pritha Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
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