Pakeha (spider)

Pakeha
Pakeha tecta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cycloctenidae
Genus:	Pakeha Forster & Wilton, 1973 [1]
Type species
P. protecta Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species
18, see text

Pakeha is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains eighteen species: ^[1]

• Pakeha buechlerae Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha duplex Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha hiloa Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha inornata Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha insignita Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha kirki (Hogg, 1909) — New Zealand (Snares Is.)
• Pakeha lobata Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha manapouri Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha maxima Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha media Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha minima Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha paratecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha parrotti Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha protecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha pula Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha stewartia Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha subtecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
• Pakeha tecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Pakeha Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.