Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Chelicerata Order Araneae Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Class Arachnida Infraorder Araneomorphae | |
Uahuka is a genus of linyphiid spiders endemic to the Marquesas Islands. The genus was first described in 1935 by Berland. It was transferred to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972 by H.W. Levi, but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980. As of 2017, it contains 2 species, U. affinis and U. spinifrons U. spinifrons has only been found on Ua Huka and U. affinis has only been found on Hiva Oa, a larger island about 50 km to the southeast of Ua Huka.
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The genus is named after the island Ua Huka on the Marquesas Islands. The describer, Lucien Berland, named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. Other names derived from islands in the Marquesas are Uapou and Nukuhiva. The name of the species U. affinis is derived from the Latin affinis "allied, related"; spinifrons translates to "spiny front".