# Rarahu

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon=Rarahu nitida
| authority=[Berland](/source/Lucien_Berland), 1929<ref name=NMBE />
}}

'''''Rarahu''''' is a [genus](/source/genus_(biology)) of [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) [endemic](/source/endemic_(ecology)) to [Samoa](/source/Samoa). {{As of|2017}}, it contains only one species, '''''Rarahu nitida'''''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web|title=Salticidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-04-20| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2925}}</ref> Berland probably adapted the genus name ''Rarahu'' from [Pierre Loti](/source/Pierre_Loti)'s book of the same name, which was published in 1880. Loti himself either used the rare [Tahitian](/source/Tahitian_language) word "rarahu", meaning (amongst other things) "to eat ''[tapu](/source/Tapu_(Polynesian_culture))'' things", or changed the name of the volcano "[Raraku](/source/Rano_Raraku)".<ref>Mabbott 1946</ref> The species name is from [Latin](/source/Latin) ''nitida'' "shining", "handsome", or "neat" (a [false cognate](/source/false_cognate)).

==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{aut|Mabbott, T.O.}} (1946): The Origin of Pierre Loti's Name "Rarahu". ''Modern Language Notes'' '''61'''(4): 288.

==External links==
* [https://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/rarahu/nitida.htm Diagnostic drawings]

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Category:Salticidae
Category:Endemic fauna of Samoa
Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera
Category:Spiders of Oceania

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