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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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See also
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edit- ^ a b "Gen. Paiwana Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Dimitrov, D. (2014). "Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 253 (5): 394–403. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2014.04.001.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
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