Mysmena wawuensis

Mysmena wawuensis
Mysmena wawuensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Mysmenidae
Genus: Mysmena
Species:
M. wawuensis
Binomial name
Mysmena wawuensis
Lin & Li, 2013[1]

Mysmena wawuensis is a species of spider found in China. It grows to 0.75 millimetres long. It is named after the Wawu Mountain National Forest Park in Sichuan Province in southwestern China where it was discovered and first described in 2013 by Yucheng Lin and Shuqiang Li. It was collected from the leaf litter at an altitude of 1,929 metres (6,329 ft) and is only known from the type locality.[2][3][4][5]

Description

Measuring just 0.75 mm (0.03 in) long, Mysmena wawuensis is one of the smallest spiders known.[3] The carapace is round in the male and pear-shaped in the female. The cephalothorax is brown with dark margins, the sternum is black and the disproportionately large opisthosoma is black, with yellow flecks.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Taxon details Mysmena wawuensis Lin & Li, 2013". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  2. ^ Li, Shuqiang. "Mysmena wawuensis". EurekAlert!. Pensoft Publishers. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Two Amazingly Tiny Spider Species Found in China". Sci-News.com. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Wild Fact #16 – The Newly Discovered Spider – Mysmena wawuensis". Wild Facts. 14 June 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. ^ Crew, Becky (12 June 2013). "Two new species of Chinese spider are positively weeny". Scientific American. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  6. ^ Lin, Yucheng; Li, Shuqiang (12 May 2013). "Two new species of the genera Mysmena and Trogloneta (Mysmenidae,Araneae) from Southwestern China" (PDF). ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers. Retrieved 16 June 2013.


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