Paratupua is a monotypic genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae found in Victoria, Australia.[1] It contains the single species, Paratupua grayi. Though it's sometimes misspelled Paratupa,[2] the correct spelling is "Paratupua".[2][1]

Paratupua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Paratupua
Platnick, 1990[1]
Species:
P. grayi
Binomial name
Paratupua grayi
Platnick, 1990

Both genus and species were first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1990,[2] who placed it with the Synotaxidae. In 2017, it was moved to the Physoglenidae.[3]

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Paratupua Platnick, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ a b c Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
  3. ^ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728.