Pireneitega luctuosa

Pireneitega luctuosa
Illustration of Pireneitega luctuosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Pireneitega
Species:
P. luctuosa
Binomial name
Pireneitega luctuosa
(L. Koch, 1878)[1]
Synonyms
  • Paracoelotes luctuosus[2]

Pireneitega luctuosa is an araneomorph spider species. It is commonly found in southern Chinese caves.[1]

delta-Palutoxins were originally isolated from the venom of P. luctuosa.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Fomichev, Alexander A. (6 November 2020). "New data on spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from the caves of Southwestern Siberia (Russia)". Acta Biologica Sibirica. 6. Pensoft Publishers: 429–436. doi:10.3897/abs.6.e59450. ISSN 2412-1908.
  2. ^ Yang, Sheng; Pyati, Prashant; Fitches, Elaine; Gatehouse, John A. (1 April 2014). "A recombinant fusion protein containing a spider toxin specific for the insect voltage-gated sodium ion channel shows oral toxicity towards insects of different orders". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 47 (100): 1–11. Bibcode:2014IBMB...47....1Y. doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2014.01.007. ISSN 0965-1748. PMC 4024200. PMID 24486516.
  3. ^ Corzo, Gerardo; Escoubas, Pierre; Stankiewicz, Maria; Pelhate, Marcel; Kristensen, Charles P.; Nakajima, Terumi (2000). "Isolation, synthesis and pharmacological characterization of δ-palutoxins IT, novel insecticidal toxins from the spider Paracoelotes luctuosus (Amaurobiidae)". European Journal of Biochemistry. 267 (18): 5783–5795. doi:10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01653.x. ISSN 1432-1033. PMID 10971590.