Maretyna

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Maretyna
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Dictynidae
Genus: Maretyna
Lin & Liu, 2025 [1]
Species:
M. nongchao
Binomial name
Maretyna nongchao
Lin & Liu, 2025 [2]

Maretyna is a Chinese monotypic genus of spiders in the family Dictynidae containing the single species, Maretyna nongchao. [2]

Contents

The Chinese name given to this spider by the authors is 弄潮海卷叶蛛; Nòng cháo hǎi juàn yè zhū. [1]

Distribution

Maretyna nongchao is endemic to Hainan province in China. [2] It has been collected in Sanya City on the southern coast of Hainan. [1]

Life style

M. nongchao is an intertidal species in tropical Hainan. The habitat of this new species is completely submerged at high tide. [1]

Etymology

The genus name is a combination of Latin mare (ocean) and the ending of related genus Dictyna , indicating that this is the first described intertidal species of Dictynidae. [1]

The specific name is from 弄潮; Nòng cháo "riding the tide". [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lin, Y. J.; Liu, B. (2025). "A new intertidal genus and species of Dictynidae (Araneae: Dictynoidea) from Hainan, China". The Indochina Entomologist. 1: 619–628. doi:10.70590/ice.2025.01.65. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gen. Maretyna Lin & Liu, 2025". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-29.


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