Duripelta

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

Duripelta
Duripelta sp., male
Scientific classification
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

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:[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

• List of Orsolobidae species

References

1. "Gen. Duripelta Forster, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 89–169.