Pritha
Pritha garfieldi with prey
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Pritha
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
P. nana
(Simon, 1868)
Species

19, see text

Pritha is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Species

As of March 2022 it contains nineteen species found in Asia and Europe:[1]

  • Pritha albimaculata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
  • Pritha ampulla Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha beijingensis Song, 1986 – China
  • Pritha condita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) – Azores, St. Helena
  • Pritha crosbyi (Spassky, 1938) – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
  • Pritha debilis (Simon, 1911) – Algeria
  • Pritha dharmakumarsinhjii Patel, 1978 – India
  • Pritha garfieldi Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
  • Pritha hirsuta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
  • Pritha nana (Simon, 1868) (type) – Mediterranean, India
  • Pritha napadensis (Patel, 1975) – India
  • Pritha pallida (Kulczyński, 1897) – Madeira, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Georgia
  • Pritha parva Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – France, Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria
  • Pritha poonaensis (Tikader, 1963) – India
  • Pritha sagittata Legittimo, Simeon, Di Pompeo & Kulczycki, 2017 – Italy, Switzerland, Croatia
  • Pritha spinula Wang, 1987 – China
  • Pritha tenuispina (Strand, 1914) – Israel
  • Pritha vestita (Simon, 1873) – France (Corsica), Bulgaria
  • 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 is bipartite, and the calamistrum has three rows of setae of various lengths, however, the middle row is always the shortest.[3]

Behaviour and ecology

They are mostly 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.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Pritha Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
  3. 1 2 Mondal, Ayan & Chanda, Debomay & Vartak, Atul & Kulkarni, Siddharth. (2020). A Field Guide to the Spider Genera of India.


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