Kintaqa

Kintaqa
Kintaqa satun
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Kintaqa Huber, 2018 [1]
Type species
Pholcus buatong (Huber, 2016)
Species
5, see text

Kintaqa is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders erected in 2018 for five species moved from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study. ^[1] They are medium-sized spiders, distinguished by their unique enlarged shape of fourth segment of pedipalps. ^[2]

The name honors the Kintaq, a Thai ethnic group. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2022 ^[update] it contains five species: ^[1]

• K. buatong (Huber, 2016) (type) – Thailand
• K. fuza (Yao & Li, 2017) – Thailand
• K. mueangensis (Yao & Li, 2017) – Thailand
• K. satun (Huber, 2011) – Thailand, Malaysia
• K. schwendingeri (Huber, 2011) – Thailand

See also

• Pholcus
• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. "Gen. Kintaqa Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2022-04-12.
2. Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 . PMC   6193417 . PMID   30344435.

Further reading

• Huber, B. A.; Petcharad, B.; Leh Moi Ung, C.; et al. (2016). "The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae): new data from field observations and ultrastructure". European Journal of Taxonomy (190): 1–55. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2016.190 .
• Dong, T. T.; Zheng, G.; Yao, Z. Y.; et al. (2017). "Ten new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia" . Zootaxa. 4306 (3): 339–369. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.3.
• Huber, B. A. (2011). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 58: 1–509.