Duripelta
Appearance
Duripelta | |
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Duripelta sp., male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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Species | |
17, see text |
Duripelta is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:[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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Duripelta Forster, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 89–169.