Gasparia

Gasparia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Brian J. Marples in 1956.[3] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[4]

Gasparia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae
Genus:	Gasparia Marples, 1956[1]
Type species
G. nebulosa Marples, 1956
Species
22, see text
Synonyms[1]
Hina Forster, 1964[2]

Species

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

• Gasparia busa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia coriacea Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia delli (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is., Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
• Gasparia dentata Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia edwardsi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia kaiangaroa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
• Gasparia littoralis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia lomasi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia mangamuka Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia manneringi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Snares Is.)
• Gasparia montana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nava Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nebulosa Marples, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
• Gasparia nelsonensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nuntia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia oparara Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia parva Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia pluta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia rupicola Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia rustica Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia tepakia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia tuaiensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Gasparia Marples, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 235.
3. Marples, B. J. (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 329–342.
4. 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.