Patu Marples, 1951 Patu Marples, 1951, p. 47 (type species by original designation Patu vitiensis Marples) Diagnosis. The members of genus Patu may be recognized by the following characters: the chelicerae fused only near their base, the distinctly elevated cephalic pars, six eyes in three diads and the absence of female palp. Description. See Forster and Platnick (1977). Distribution. Colombia, southern China, Fiji, New Guinea and Samoa, Seychelles. The new species described here are placed in the genus Patu as they share an elevated pars cephalica, fused chelicerae near their base, six eyes arranged in diads and the absence of palp in females.

Published as part of Lin, Yucheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2009, First described Patu spiders (Araneae, Symphytognathidae) from Asia, pp. 47-68 in Zootaxa 2154 on pages 48-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188801