Pritha
Encyclopedia
Pritha is a genus
of spider
s, in the family Filistatidae (crevice weavers). Most of its 22 described species are found in Asia
, from Israel
to China
and the Philippines
. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
s, in the family Filistatidae (crevice weavers). Most of its 22 described species are found in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, from Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
to China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
and the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. Several species occur in the Mediterranean, and one species is found on New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
.
Species
- Pritha albimaculata (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Israel)
- Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 (China)
- Pritha bakeri (Berland, 1938) (New Hebrides)
- Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 (China)
- Pritha condita (O. P.-Cambridge, 1873) (Azores, St. Helena)
- Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) (Central Asia)
- Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 (India)
- Pritha garciai (Simon, 1892) (Philippines)
- Pritha hasselti (Simon, 1906) (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi)
- Pritha heikkii Saaristo, 1978 (Seychelles)
- Pritha insularis (Thorell, 1881) (Nicobar Is.)
- Pritha lindbergi (Roewer, 1962) (Afghanistan)
- Pritha littoralis (Roewer, 1938) (New Guinea)
- Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (Mediterranean)
- Pritha nicobarensis (Tikader, 1977) (Andaman Is., Nicobar Is.)
- Pritha pallida (Kulczynski, 1897) (Mediterranean)
- Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) (India)
- Pritha sechellana Benoit, 1978 (Seychelles)
- Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 (China)
- Pritha sundaica (Kulczynski, 1908) (Java)
- Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) (Israel)
- Pritha zebrata (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar)