Lehtineniana

Lehtineniana is a genus of South Pacific cribellate orb-weavers first described by Danniella Sherwood in 2022. It is named in honor of Pekka T. Lehtinen. It was formerly known as Tangaroa, and renamed after this was found to be a junior homonym of the rhabdocoel flatworm genus Tangaroa, prompting its replacement.^[2]

Lehtineniana
L. tahitiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Uloboridae
Genus:	Lehtineniana Sherwood, 2022[1]
Type species
L. tahitiensis (Berland, 1934)
Species
5, see text
Synonyms[1]
Tangaroa Lehtinen, 1967

Species

As of July 2022^[update] it contains five species:^[1]

• Lehtineniana beattyi (Opell, 1983) — Caroline Is.
• Lehtineniana dissimilis (Berland, 1924) — Vanuatu, New Caledonia
• Lehtineniana pukapukan (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.
• Lehtineniana tahitiensis (Berland, 1934) — French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is., Austral Is.)
• Lehtineniana vaka (Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015) — Cook Is.