Ozarchaea

Ozarchaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Malkaridae
Genus:	Ozarchaea Rix, 2006 [1]
Type species
O. ornata (Hickman, 1969)
Species
16, see text

Ozarchaea is a genus of South Pacific shield spiders that was first described by Michael Gordon Rix in 2006. ^[2]

Species

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

• Ozarchaea bodalla Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ozarchaea bondi Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ozarchaea daviesae Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ozarchaea forsteri Rix, 2006 – New Zealand
• Ozarchaea harveyi Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Ozarchaea janineae Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ozarchaea ornata (Hickman, 1969) (type) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Ozarchaea platnicki Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ozarchaea saxicola (Hickman, 1969) – Australia (Tasmania)
• Ozarchaea spurgeon Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ozarchaea stradbroke Rix, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ozarchaea valida Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ozarchaea waldockae Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Ozarchaea werrikimbe Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Ozarchaea westraliensis Rix, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Ozarchaea wiangarie Rix, 2006 – Australia (New South Wales)

See also

• List of Malkaridae species

References

1. "Gen. Ozarchaea Rix, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Rix, M. G. (2006). "Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida: Araneae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (2): 203–254. doi:10.1071/IS05032.