Subantarctia

Subantarctia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2]

Subantarctia
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

9, see text

Species

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

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand". Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 2: 167–203.


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