Ascuta is a genus of araneomorph spiders endemic to New Zealand in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.[2]
| Ascuta | |
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| Ascuta australis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Ascuta Forster, 1956[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. media Forster, 1956
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| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Species
editAs of June 2019[update] it contains fourteen species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Ascuta australis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta cantuaria Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta inopinata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta leith Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta media Forster, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
- Ascuta monowai Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta musca Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta ornata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta parornata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta taupo Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta tongariro Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta univa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Ascuta Forster, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 89–169.
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