Naatlo
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Naatlo
|image=Toile de Naatlo.jpg
| authority = Coddington, 1986
| type_species = N. sutila
| type_species_authority = Coddington, 1986
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 7, see text
}}
Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.{{cite journal| last=Coddington| first=J. A.| year=1986| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae| journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology| pages=1–96| volume=422| issue=422| doi=10.5479/si.00810282.422| author-link=Jonathan A. Coddington}}
Behaviour
They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.{{cite web |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/slingshot-spiders-pull-more-gs-than-cheetahs-68097 |title=Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do |last=Yeager |first=Ashley |date=Nov 1, 2022 |publisher=The Scientist |access-date=Dec 30, 2022}} Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.{{cite journal |journal=Current Biology |first1=Symone |last1=Alexander |first2=Saad |last2=Bhamla |title=Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs |year=2020 |volume = 30 |issue = 16 |pages = 928–929 |doi =10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.076 |doi-access=free |pmid=32810449 |bibcode=2020CBio...30.R928A }}
Species
{{as of|2020|06}} it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Naatlo Coddington, 1986| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-18| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3573| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Naatlo fauna (Simon, 1897) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
- Naatlo maturaca Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
- Naatlo mayzana Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
- Naatlo serrana Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
- Naatlo splendida (Taczanowski, 1874) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. [note, date wrong in several works as 1879]
- Naatlo sutila Coddington, 1986 (type) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
- Naatlo sylvicola (Hingston, 1932) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Wienskoski| first=E.| year=2010| title=The genus Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae): distribution and taxonomic history| journal=Revista Brasileira de Biociências| pages=131–138| volume=8| issue=2}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Rodrigues| first1=E. N. L.| last2=Lise| first2=A. A.| year=2008| title=Description of two new species of Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) from Brazil| journal=Revista Brasileira de Zoologia| pages=299–308| volume=25| issue=2| doi=10.1590/S0101-81752008000200017| doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal| last=Archer| first=A. F.| year=1953| title=Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae)| journal=American Museum Novitates| pages=1–27| issue=1622}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Dupérré| first1=N.| last2=Tapia| first2=E.| year=2017| title=On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species| journal=Zootaxa| pages=375–399| volume=4341| issue=3| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3| pmid=29245661}}
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Category:Spiders of Central America
Category:Spiders of South America
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