Biology:Duripelta

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Duripelta
Duripelta.jpg
Duripelta sp., male
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Duripelta
Forster, 1956[1]
Type species
D. borealis
Forster, 1956
Species

17, see text

Duripelta is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:[1]

  • Duripelta alta Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta australis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta borealis Forster, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
  • Duripelta egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta hunua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta koomaa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta mawhero Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta minuta Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta monowai Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta otara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta pallida (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Duripelta paringa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta peha Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta scuta Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta totara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Duripelta watti Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Duripelta Forster, 1956. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2194. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum 7: 89–169. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5518377 entry