Ryuthela
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| Female Ryuthela nishihirai from Okinawa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mesothelae |
| Family: | Heptathelidae |
| Genus: | Ryuthela Haupt, 1983 |
| Type species | |
| Heptathela nishihirai Haupt, 1979
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Ryuthela is a spider genus in the family Liphistiidae.[1] This genus, as well as their closest relatives, Heptathela, formed when land masses from present-day Japan separated from the rest of Asia, forming islands in the late Miocene. Speciation of Ryuthela and Heptathela also occurred during this time, because of the further separation of islands, causing allopatric speciation.[2]
Species list
- Ryuthela iheyana Ono, 2002 — Ryukyu Islands
- Ryuthela ishigakiensis Haupt, 1983 — Ryukyu Islands
- Ryuthela nishihirai (Haupt, 1979) — Okinawa
- Ryuthela sasakii Ono, 1997 — Ryukyu Islands
- Ryuthela tanikawai Ono, 1997 — Ryukyu Islands
See also
References
- ^ "Ryuthela". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ Xu, Xin; Liu, Fengxiang; Chen, Jian; Ono, Hirotsugu; Agnarsson, Ingi; Li, Daiqin; Kuntner, Matjaž (9 January 2016). "Pre-Pleistocene geological events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian margins". Journal of Biogeography. 43 (5): 1004–1019. doi:10.1111/jbi.12687.
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