Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.
Behaviour
They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey. Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s<sup>2</sup>.
Species
it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:
- Naatlo fauna <small>(Simon, 1897)</small> â Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
- Naatlo maturaca <small>Rodrigues & Lise, 2008</small> â Brazil
- Naatlo mayzana <small>Dupérré & Tapia, 2017</small> â Ecuador
- Naatlo serrana <small>Rodrigues & Lise, 2008</small> â Brazil
- Naatlo splendida <small>(Taczanowski, 1874)</small> â Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. [note, date wrong in several works as 1879]
- Naatlo sutila <small>Coddington, 1986</small> (type) â Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
- Naatlo sylvicola <small>(Hingston, 1932)</small> â Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana
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