Hapona

Hapona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae
Genus:	Hapona ; Forster, 1970
Type species
	H. otagoa ; (Forster, 1964)
Species
	13, see text

Last updated November 12, 2025

Hapona is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.^[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[3]

Species

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

Hapona amira Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Hapona aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona crypta (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona insula (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona marplesi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona moana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Hapona momona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Hapona muscicola (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona otagoa (Forster, 1964) (type) – New Zealand
Hapona paihia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Hapona reinga Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
Hapona salmoni (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
Hapona tararua Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

1 2 "Gen. Hapona Forster, 1970". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
↑ Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 1–184.
↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Hapona Forster, 1970". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.

[Fors1970-2] Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 1–184.

[Whee2017-3] Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.

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