Toxopsoides

Toxopsoides
Toxopsoides erici
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae
Genus:	Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 [1]
Type species
T. huttoni Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species
4, see text

Toxopsoides is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. ^[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017. ^[3]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains four species: ^[1]

• Toxopsoides erici Smith, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Toxopsoides huttoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type) – Southeastern Australia, New Zealand
• Toxopsoides kathleenae Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Toxopsoides macleayi Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)

References

1. "Gen. Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-06-01.
2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID   34724759. S2CID   35535038.