Forsterina
Appearance
Forsterina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Desidae |
Genus: | Forsterina Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
Type species | |
F. cryphoeciformis (Simon, 1908)
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Species | |
9, see text |
Forsterina is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains nine species:[1]
- Forsterina alticola (Berland, 1924) – New Caledonia
- Forsterina annulipes (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
- Forsterina armigera (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Forsterina cryphoeciformis (Simon, 1908) (type) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Forsterina koghiana Gray, 1992 – New Caledonia
- Forsterina segestrina (L. Koch, 1872) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Forsterina velifera (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Forsterina virgosa (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Forsterina vultuosa (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Forsterina Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.