Subantarctia
| Subantarctia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Subantarctia Forster, 1955[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. turbotti Forster, 1955 | |
| Species | |
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Subantarctia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains nine species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Subantarctia centralis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia dugdalei Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia fiordensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia florae Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia muka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia penara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia stewartensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia trina Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Subantarctia turbotti Forster, 1955 (type) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ↑ Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand". Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 2: 167–203.