Waipoua_(spider)

<i>Waipoua</i> (spider)

Waipoua (spider)

Genus of spiders

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]

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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]
    "Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. [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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