Pitharatus
Genus of spiders
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Pitharatus is a genus of Southeast Asian orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Pitharatus junghuhni. It was first described by Eugène Simon in 1895 to contain the single species moved from the now obsolete "catch-all" genus Epeira.[3] It has only been found in Malaysia and Indonesia.[1]
| Pitharatus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Pitharatus Simon, 1895[1] |
| Species: | P. junghuhni |
| Binomial name | |
| Pitharatus junghuhni (Doleschall, 1859) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Epeira junghuhni Doleschall, 1859[2] | |
