Waipoua (spider)
Waipoua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Orsolobidae |
Genus: | Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
Type species | |
W. toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 | |
Species | |
8, see text |
Waipoua is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2]
Species
As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Waipoua gressitti (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
- Waipoua hila Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua ponanga Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
- Waipoua totara (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.