Waipoua Totara
''Waipoua totara'' is a species of Orsolobidae that is endemic to New Zealand. Taxonomy This species was described as ''Pounamua totara'' in 1956 by Ray Forster from a male specimen collected in Rangitikei. In 1985, it was moved into '' Waipoua''. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum. Description The male is recorded at 1.75mm in length. The carapace and abdomen are patterned dorsally. Distribution This species is only known from Pohangina Valley in Rangitikei, New Zealand. Conservation status Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand. The system was developed because the IUCN Red List, a similar conservation status system, had some ..., this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size", "Data Poor: Trend" and "One Location". References Spiders described in 1956 Orsol ...
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Ray Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educated at Victoria University College, gaining BSc, MSc(Hons) and DSc degrees. Forster was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945 he served first in the army and then as a naval radar mechanic.Ray Forster obituary
. International Society of Arachnology. Retrieved 14 February 2013. He was appointed zoologist and assistant director at Canterbury Mu ...
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