Orchestina sakhalinensis Marusik et al. 2018 (goblin spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae

Full reference: Y. M. Marusik, E. E. Perkovsky, and K. Y. Eskov. 2018. First records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Sakhalinian amber with description of a new species of the genus Orchestina Simon, 1890. Far Eastern Entomologist 367:1-9

Belongs to Orchestina according to Y. M. Marusik et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Orchestina (Baltorchestina), Orchestina (Gallorchestina), Orchestina baltica, Orchestina breviembolus, Orchestina colombiensis, Orchestina crassiembolus, Orchestina dominicana, Orchestina forceps, Orchestina fushunensis, Orchestina gappi, Orchestina gracilitibialis, Orchestina kenyana, Orchestina longimana, Orchestina madagascariensis, Orchestina mortua, Orchestina pusilla, Orchestina qiu, Orchestina rabagensis, Orchestina tibialis, Orchestina truncata, Orchestina tuberosa

Type specimen: PIN 3387/731, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387), which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber/coal in the Naibuchi Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387)

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