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Ryuthela
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Female Ryuthela nishihirai from Okinawa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mesothelae
Family: Heptathelidae
Genus: Ryuthela
Haupt, 1983
Type species
Heptathela nishihirai
Haupt, 1979
Species

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Ryuthela is a spider genus in the family Heptathelidae. [1] This genus, as well as their closest relatives, Heptathela , formed when land masses from present-day Japan separated from the rest of Asia, forming islands in the late Miocene. Speciation of Ryuthela and Heptathela also occurred during this time, because of the further separation of islands, causing allopatric speciation.

They exhibit intraspecific variation in female genitalia despite being morphologically alike. Male spiders live only a few weeks after reaching maturity whereas female spiders can live up to 10 to 20 years (Huber, T. & Haug, C., 2021). [2]

Species list

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References

  1. "Family Heptathelidae Kishida, 1923 (genus list)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  2. Xu, Xin; Liu, Fengxiang; Chen, Jian; Ono, Hirotsugu; Agnarsson, Ingi; Li, Daiqin; Kuntner, Matjaž (9 January 2016). "Pre-Pleistocene geological events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian margins". Journal of Biogeography. 43 (5): 1004–1019. doi:10.1111/jbi.12687. S2CID   54520728.