Orepukia
Orepukia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, known only from New Zealand. First described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973,[2] it was originally placed in Agelenidae, but was transferred to Cycloctenidae in 2017.[3] Their webs are built on the ground between fallen branches, logs, and other debris, and they are commonly found on the South Island, but hardly ever anywhere else.[2] They range in size from 6 to 7.5 millimetres (0.24 to 0.30 in) and lack a cribellum. Their eight eyes are in two rows, the anterior row straight and the other slightly curved. Their jaws are vertical and the labium is notched near the base.[2]
| Orepukia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Agelenidae |
| Genus: | Orepukia Forster & Wilton, 1973[1] |
| Type species | |
| O. sorenseni Forster & Wilton, 1973 | |
| Species | |
| 24, see text | |
Species Edit
As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty-four species:[1]
- Orepukia alta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia catlinensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia dugdalei Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia egmontensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia florae Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia geophila Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia grisea Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia insula Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia nota Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia nummosa (Hogg, 1909) — New Zealand
- Orepukia orophila Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia pallida Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia poppelwelli Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia prina Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia rakiura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia redacta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia riparia Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia sabua Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia similis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia simplex Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia sorenseni Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia tanea Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia tonga Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Orepukia virtuta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
References Edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Orepukia Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ a b c Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
- ^ Wheeler; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6)): 576–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.