Waiporia
| Waiporia | |
|---|---|
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| W. wiltoni Forster & Platnick, 1985 | |
| Species | |
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Waiporia 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
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Waiporia algida (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia chathamensis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
- Waiporia egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia extensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia hawea Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia hornabrooki (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia mensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia modica (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia owaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia ruahine Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia tuata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia wiltoni Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ↑ 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.