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Funny valentine
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Macrobunidae
Genus:	Funny; Lin & Li, 2022
Species:	F. valentine
Binomial name
	Funny valentine; Lin & Li, 2022

Funny valentine is a species of macrobunid spider in the monotypic genus Funny.^[1]

Etymology

The specific name was described as "an arbitrary combination of letters" by its authors.^[2] However, it was later described as a reference to the character of the same name from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.^[3]

Description

Funny valentine measures around 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in body length. It possesses six eyes, with the anterior eye row being recurved. The oval-shaped cephalothorax and legs are pale yellow, while the abdomen is white. The body is sparsely covered in dark setae.^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Funny was originally described as part of the family Dictynidae.^[1] A 2023 study later moved it to the family Macrobunidae, which was elevated from its former rank of subfamily, as part of a phylogenetic reevaluation of "marronoid" spider taxonomy.^[4]

Distribution

Funny valentine is only known from its type locality of Kangding in Sichuan, China. The holotype and paratypes were found under moss.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lin et al. 2022, p. 208.
^ ^a ^b Lin et al. 2022, p. 210.
^ Dinsdale, Ryan (1 July 2024). "Scientists Name Newly Discovered Eyeless Spider After Blind Flying Wyvern From Monster Hunter". IGN. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
^ Gorneau et al. 2023, p. 10.

Works cited

Lin, Yejie; Zhao, Huifeng; Koh, Joseph K H; Li, Shuqiang (24 July 2022). "Taxonomy notes on twenty-eight spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Asia". Zoological Systematics. 47 (3): 198–270. doi:10.11865/zs.2022303.
Gorneau, Jacob A; Crews, Sarah C; Cala-Riquelme, Franklyn; Montana, Katherine O; Spagna, Joseph C; Ballarin, Francesco; Almeida-Silva, Lina M; Esposito, Lauren A (1 September 2023). Bond, Jason (ed.). "Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 7 (5). doi:10.1093/isd/ixad021. ISSN 2399-3421.