Toxopsiella

Toxopsiella
Toxopsiella spp. seen near Te Miko, Punakaiki, West Coast
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Cycloctenidae
Genus:	Toxopsiella Forster, 1964 [1]
Type species
T. lawrencei Forster, 1964
Species
12, see text

Toxopsiella is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1964. ^[2]

Species

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

• Toxopsiella alpina Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella australis Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella centralis Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella dugdalei Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella horningi Forster, 1979 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella lawrencei Forster, 1964 (type) – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella medialis Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella minuta Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella nelsonensis Forster, 1979 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella orientalis Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella parrotti Forster, 1964 – New Zealand
• Toxopsiella perplexa Forster, 1964 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Toxopsiella Forster, 1964". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Forster, R. R. (1964). "The spider family Toxopidae (Araneae)". Annals of the Natal Museum. 16: 113–151.