Zelanda

Zelanda is a genus of South Pacific ground spiders that was first described by H. Özdikmen in 2009.[1][2]

Zelanda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Zelanda
Özdikmen, 2009[1]
Type species
Z. erebus
(L. Koch, 1873)
Species

6, see text

Species

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

  • Zelanda elongata (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
  • Zelanda erebus (L. Koch, 1873) (type) – New Zealand
  • Zelanda kaituna (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
  • Zelanda miranda (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
  • Zelanda obtusa (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
  • Zelanda titirangia (Ovtsharenko, Fedoryak & Zakharov, 2006) – New Zealand

References

  1. "Gen. Zelanda Özdikmen, 2009". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. Özdikmen, H. (2009). "Nomenclatural changes for three preoccupied Australian spider genera described by R. R. Forster (Arachnida: Araneae)". Munis Entomology and Zoology. 4: 121–124.


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