Waipoua (spider)
Waipoua 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]
| Waipoua | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| W. toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 | |
| Species | |
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8, see text | |
Species
As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:[1]
- Waipoua gressitti (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
- Waipoua hila Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua ponanga Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waipoua toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
- Waipoua totara (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
See also
References
- "Gen. Waipoua 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.
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