Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]
Behaviour
They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.[4]
Species
As of June 2020 it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:[1]
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Naatlo fauna (Simon, 1897) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
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Naatlo maturaca Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
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Naatlo mayzana Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
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Naatlo serrana Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
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Naatlo splendida (Taczanowski, 1874) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. [note, date wrong in several works as 1879]
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Naatlo sutila Coddington, 1986 (type) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
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Naatlo sylvicola (Hingston, 1932) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana
See also
References
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^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Naatlo Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
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^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.
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^ Yeager, Ashley (Nov 1, 2022). "Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do". The Scientist. Retrieved Dec 30, 2022.
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^ Alexander, Symone; Bhamla, Saad (2020). "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs". Current Biology. 30 (16): 928–929. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.076.
