Ascuta

Ascuta
Ascuta australis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Ascuta Forster, 1956 [1]
Type species
A. media Forster, 1956
Species
14, see text

Ascuta is a genus of araneomorph spiders endemic to New Zealand in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956. ^[2]

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] it contains fourteen species, found only in New Zealand: ^[1]

• Ascuta australis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Ascuta cantuaria Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta inopinata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Ascuta insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta leith Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta media Forster, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
• Ascuta monowai Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta musca Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta ornata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Ascuta parornata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta taupo Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta tongariro Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Ascuta univa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

References

1. "Gen. Ascuta Forster, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 89–169.