Lehtineniana Explained

Lehtineniana is a genus of South Pacific cribellate orb-weavers first described by Danniella Sherwood in 2022.^[1]

Species

it contains five species:^[2]

• Lehtineniana beattyi (Opell, 1983) — Caroline Is.
• Lehtineniana dissimilis (Berland, 1924) — Vanuatu, New Caledonia
• Lehtineniana pukapukan (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.
• Lehtineniana tahitiensis (Berland, 1934) — French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is., Austral Is.)
• Lehtineniana vaka (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.

Notes and References

1. Sherwood . Danniella . 2022 . Replacement names for Leroya Lewis & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2014 (Araneidae: Thomisidae) and Tangaroa Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae: Uloboridae) . Revista Ibérica de Aracnología . 40 . 203–204.
2. Web site: Gen. Lehtineniana Sherwood, 2022 . 14 July 2022 . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.