''Waipoua'' is a
genus of
Polynesian
araneomorph spiders in the family
Orsolobidae
Orsolobidae is a six-eyed spider family with about 180 described species in thirty genera. It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1965, and was raised to family status from "Dysderidae" in 1985.
Genera
Most genera are endemic to New Zeala ...
, and was first described by
Raymond Robert Forster &
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
in 1985.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in
New Zealand:
*''
Waipoua gressitti''
(Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
*''
Waipoua hila''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua insula''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua montana''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua otiana''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua ponanga''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua toronui''
Forster & Platnick, 1985 (
type
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) – New Zealand
*''
Waipoua totara''
(Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
See also
*
List of Orsolobidae species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Orsolobidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog :
A ''Afrilobus''
'' Afrilobus'' Griswold & Platnick, 1987
* '' A. australis'' Griswold & Platnick, 1987 — South Africa
* '' A. capens ...
References
Araneomorphae genera
Orsolobidae
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
Endemic spiders of New Zealand
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