Biology:Kapanga

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Kapanga
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Kapanga
Forster, 1970[1]
Type species
K. wiltoni
Forster, 1970
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Tuata Forster, 1970[2]

Kapanga is a genus of South Pacific dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains ten species:[1]

  • Kapanga alta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga festiva Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga grana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga hickmani (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
  • Kapanga isulata (Forster, 1970) – New Zealand
  • Kapanga luana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga mana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga manga Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Kapanga solitaria (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
  • Kapanga wiltoni Forster, 1970 (type) – New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Kapanga Forster, 1970. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1034. Retrieved 2019-06-07. 
  2. Brignoli, P. M. (1986). "Spiders from Melanesia III. A new Alistra (Araneae, Hahniidae) from the Solomon Islands". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 11: 329. 
  3. Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III.". Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1–184. 

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