
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.
GENUS
via GBIF
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.
==Species== it contains five species: 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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).