Celaenia hectori

Celaenia hectori
Conservation status
Data Deficient (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Celaenia
Species:	C. hectori
Binomial name
Celaenia hectori (Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)
Synonyms
Thlaosoma hectori

Celaenia hectori is a species of Araneidae spider that is native to New Zealand. ^[1]

Taxonomy

This species was described as Thlaosoma hectori in 1880 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge from a single female specimen collected in Dunedin. ^[2] It was transferred to Celaenia in 1917. ^[1]

Description

This species has an olive yellowish cephalothorax and legs. The abdomen is dull yellowish with dark yellow brown shading. This species is similar to Celaenia atkinsoni , but is smaller. ^[2]

Distribution

This species is only known from Dunedin, New Zealand. ^[2]

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size" and "Data Poor: Trend". ^[3]

References

1. Dalmas, R. de (1917). "Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande" . Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 86 (2–3): 317–430. doi:10.1080/21686351.1917.12279910.
2. Cambridge, O. P. (1879). "7. On some new and rare Spiders from New Zealand, with Characters of four new Genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47 (1): 681–703. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x. ISSN   0370-2774.
3. Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.