Waiporia

Waiporia 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]

Waiporia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Waiporia
Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Type species
W. wiltoni
Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species

12, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twelve species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

  • Waiporia algida (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Waiporia chathamensis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
  • Waiporia egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Waiporia extensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Waiporia hawea Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Waiporia hornabrooki (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Waiporia mensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Waiporia modica (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
  • Waiporia owaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Waiporia ruahine Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Waiporia tuata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • Waiporia wiltoni Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
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See also

References
  1. "Gen. Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. 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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