Waipoua (spider)

Waipoua
Waipoua gressitti (Forster, c.1964)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 [1]
Type species
W. toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species
8, see text

Waipoua is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985. ^[2]

Species

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

• Waipoua gressitti (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Waipoua hila Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua ponanga Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Waipoua toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
• Waipoua totara (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

References

1. "Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.