''Pritha'' is a
genus
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of
crevice weavers that was first described by
Pekka T. Lehtinen
Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnology, arachnologist and taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated.
Biography
Lehtinen was born on 5 April ...
in 1967.
Species
it contains nineteen species found in
Asia
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and
Europe
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:
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Pritha albimaculata''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
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Pritha ampulla''
Wang, 1987 – China
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Pritha beijingensis''
Song, 1986 – China
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Pritha condita''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Azores, St. Helena
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Pritha crosbyi''
(Spassky, 1938) – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
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Pritha debilis''
(Simon, 1911) – Algeria
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Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii''
Patel, 1978 – India
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Pritha garfieldi''
Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
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Pritha hirsuta''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
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Pritha nana''
(Simon, 1868) (
type
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* ...
) – Mediterranean, India
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Pritha napadensis''
(Patel, 1975) – India
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Pritha pallida''
( Kulczyński, 1897) – Madeira, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Georgia
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Pritha parva''
Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – France, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria
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Pritha poonaensis''
( Tikader, 1963) – India
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Pritha sagittata''
Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – Italy, Switzerland, Croatia
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Pritha spinula''
Wang, 1987 – China
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Pritha tenuispina''
(Strand
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* ...
, 1914) – Israel
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Pritha vestita''
(Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica), Bulgaria
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Pritha zebrata''
( Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
Description
They are small to medium sized spiders. Females have a fishbone-like pattern on the abdomen, while males have a whitish spot on the dorsal side of the abdomen. Their posterior median eyes are larger than the anterior medians. The
cribellum
Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates.
In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or ...
is bipartite, and the
calamistrum
In spiders, the calamistrum is a row of specialized leg bristles used to comb out fine bands of spider silk, silk. It is only found on cribellate spiders, that is, spiders that possess the spinning organ known as the cribellum. The calamistrum and ...
has three rows of setae of various lengths, however, the middle row is always the shortest.
Mondal, Ayan & Chanda, Debomay & Vartak, Atul & Kulkarni, Siddharth. (2020). A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India.
Behaviour and ecology
They are mostly
Synanthrope, synanthropic: they are found commonly inside buildings, in door or window frames. They make three-dimensional webs that have retreats into cracks and crevices. However, they are also found under pine or oak bark, close to human settlements. They feed on small arthropods.
References
Araneomorphae genera
Filistatidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen
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