Subantarctia

Subantarctia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Subantarctia ; Forster, 1955
Type species
	S. turbotti ; Forster, 1955
Species
	9, see text

Last updated August 22, 2025

Subantarctia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.^[2]

Species

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

Subantarctia centralis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
Subantarctia dugdalei Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
Subantarctia fiordensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
Subantarctia florae Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
Subantarctia muka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
Subantarctia penara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
Subantarctia stewartensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
Subantarctia trina Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
Subantarctia turbotti Forster, 1955 (type) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)

References

1 2 "Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
↑ Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand". Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 2: 167–203.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 "Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.

[Fors1955-2] Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand". Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 2: 167–203.

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