Biology:Waipoua (spider)

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Waipoua
Scientific classification e
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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2211. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. 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. 

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