Paiwana
Genus of spiders
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Paiwana is a small genus of east Asian cellar spiders named after the Paiwan people. The genus was erected in 2018 for two species transferred from Pholcus after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae.[1] Males are distinguished by unique sclerotized modifications to the chelicerae, and females by the unique triangular epigynum shape.[2][3] As of April 2022[update] it contains only two species, both native to Taiwan: P. chengpoi and P. pingtung.
| Paiwana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Paiwana Huber, 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pholcus pingtung (Huber & Dimitrov, 2014) | |
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