Maretyna

Maretyna
	female and male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Dictynidae
Genus:	Maretyna; Lin & Liu, 2025
Species:	M. nongchao
Binomial name
	Maretyna nongchao; Lin & Liu, 2025

Maretyna is a Chinese monotypic genus of spiders in the family Dictynidae containing the single species, Maretyna nongchao.

The Chinese name given to this spider by the authors is 弄潮海卷叶蛛; Nòng cháo hǎi juàn yè zhū.

Distribution

Maretyna nongchao is endemic to Hainan province in China. It has been collected in Sanya City on the southern coast of Hainan.

Life style

M. nongchao is an intertidal species in tropical Hainan. The habitat of this new species is completely submerged at high tide.

Etymology

The genus name is a combination of Latin mare (ocean) and the ending of related genus Dictyna, indicating that this is the first described intertidal species of Dictynidae.

The specific name is from 弄潮; Nòng cháo "riding the tide".

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Lin, Y. J.; Liu, B. (2025). "A new intertidal genus and species of Dictynidae (Araneae: Dictynoidea) from Hainan, China". The Indochina Entomologist. 1 (65): 619–628. doi:10.70590/ice.2025.01.65. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
1 2 3 "Gen. Maretyna Lin & Liu, 2025". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-29.

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[lin2025-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lin, Y. J.; Liu, B. (2025). "A new intertidal genus and species of Dictynidae (Araneae: Dictynoidea) from Hainan, China". The Indochina Entomologist. 1 (65): 619–628. doi:10.70590/ice.2025.01.65. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

[wsc-2] 1 2 3 "Gen. Maretyna Lin & Liu, 2025". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-29.