Paculla Explained

Paculla is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Pacullidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.^[1] Originally placed with the Tetrablemmidae, it was transferred to the Pacullidae after a 2017 genetic study.^[2]

Species

it contains eight species, found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea:^[3]

• Paculla bukittimahensis Lin & Li, 2017 – Singapore
• Paculla cameronensis Shear, 1978 – Malaysia
• Paculla globosa Lin & Li, 2017 – Singapore
• Paculla granulosa (Thorell, 1881) (type) – New Guinea
• Paculla mului Bourne, 1981 – Borneo
• Paculla negara Shear, 1978 – Malaysia
• Paculla sulaimani Lehtinen, 1981 – Malaysia
• Paculla wanlessi Bourne, 1981 – Borneo

See also

• List of Pacullidae species

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1887. Observation sur divers arachnides: synonymies et descriptions. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 193–195. 7. 6. Eugène_Simon.
2. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 608. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. 35535038.
3. Gen. Paculla Simon, 1887. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-17. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.