| Laestrygones | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Toxopidae |
| Genus: | Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 [1] |
| Type species | |
| L. albiceris Urquhart, 1894 | |
| Species | |
6, see text | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Laestrygones is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by A. T. Urquhart in 1894. [2]
As of May 2019 [update] it contains six species from New Zealand and Tasmania: [1]
Cyatholipidae is a family of spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1894. Most live in moist montane forest, though several species, including Scharffia rossi, live in dry savannah regions. They occur in Africa, including Madagascar, New Zealand and Australia, and one species in Jamaica. Most members of this family hang beneath sheet webs. Fossil species occur in the Eocene aged Bitterfield and Baltic Ambers, suggesting a wider geographic distribution in the past.
Celaenia is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1868.
Trite auricoma, commonly known as the golden-brown jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider endemic to New Zealand.
Alistra is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1894.
Amaurobioides is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1883.
Tekella is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cyatholipidae, and was first described by A. T. Urquhart in 1894.
Cycloctenus is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, and was first described by L. Koch in 1878. Originally placed with the nursery web spiders, it was transferred to the Cycloctenidae in 1967.
Matachia is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by R. de Dalmas in 1917. Originally placed with the Psechridae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1970.
Scotospilus is a genus of dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1886.
Colaranea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court & Raymond Robert Forster in 1988 that are endemic to New Zealand.
Cryptaranea is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court & Raymond Robert Forster in 1988.
Zealaranea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court & Raymond Robert Forster in 1988.
Haplinis is a genus of South Pacific dwarf spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.
Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940. For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct. A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 led to the family being revived.
Acroaspis decorosa is a species of orbweaver spider that is endemic to New Zealand.
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