Hapona

Hapona is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

Hapona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae
Genus:	Hapona Forster, 1970[1]
Type species
H. otagoa (Forster, 1964)
Species
13, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains thirteen species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

• Hapona amira Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona crypta (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona insula (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona marplesi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona moana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona momona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona muscicola (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona otagoa (Forster, 1964) (type) – New Zealand
• Hapona paihia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona reinga Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona salmoni (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona tararua Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Hapona Forster, 1970". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 1–184.
3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.