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Genus of spiders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wanniyala is a genus of cellar spiders native to Sri Lanka, first described by Huber & Benjamin in 2005.[1] They have six eyes and four pair of legs and grow up to 2 mm in length. The abdomen is globular and males have a distinctive distal hinged sclerite on the procursus of genitalia.[2] The name is derived from the Sri Lankans native to the island that the first spiders were found on- the Vedda people- and their surname Wanniyala-Aetto.[3]
Wanniyala | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pholcidae |
Genus: | Wanniyala Huber & Benjamin, 2005 |
Type species | |
Wanniyala agrabopath Huber & Benjamin, 2005 | |
Species | |
9, see text. |
As of February 2019[update], it contains nine species:[4]
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