Biology:Orepukia
Orepukia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, known only from New Zealand. First described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973,[1] it was originally placed in Agelenidae, but was transferred to Cycloctenidae in 2017.[2] Their webs are built on the ground between fallen branches, logs, and other debris, and they are commonly found on the South Island, but hardly ever anywhere else.[1] They range in size from 6 to 7.5 millimetres (0.24 to 0.30 in) and lack a cribellum. Their eight eyes are in two rows, the anterior row straight and the other slightly curved. Their jaws are vertical and the labium is notched near the base.[1]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty-four species:[3]
- Orepukia alta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia catlinensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia dugdalei Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia egmontensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia florae Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia geophila Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia grisea Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia insula Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia nota Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia nummosa (Hogg, 1909) — New Zealand
- Orepukia orophila Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia pallida Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia poppelwelli Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia prina Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia rakiura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia redacta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia riparia Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia sabua Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia similis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia simplex Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia sorenseni Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia tanea Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia tonga Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia virtuta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.". Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1–309.
- ↑ Wheeler (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics 33 (6)): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/800050/cla.12182.pdf.
- ↑ "Gen. Orepukia Forster & Wilton, 1973". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/52. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
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