Cornitibia

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Cornitibia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Cornitibia
Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022 [1]
Species:
C. simplicithorax
Binomial name
Cornitibia simplicithorax
(Tanasevitch, 1998) [2]
Synonyms
  • Oedothorax simplicithoraxTanasevitch, 1998 [3]

Cornitibia is a monotypic genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae containing the single species, Cornitibia simplicithorax. [2] It is endemic to Nepal, where it was found in Alnus forest along a river in Ilam District. [1]

The male has a body length of 1.93 mm. The female is unknown. [3]

Etymology

The genus is named after the tusklike male palpal tibia apophysis, from Latin "cornus" ("horn"). [1] The species name refers to the unmodified shape of the male carapace. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lin, S. W.; Lopardo, L.; Uhl, G. (2022). "Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195: 417–584. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab033 .
  2. 1 2 "Gen. Cornitibia Lin, Lopardo & Uhl, 2022". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  3. 1 2 3 Tanasevitch, A. V. (1998). "New Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883, from Nepal (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae)" (PDF). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 47: 429–441.


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