Holarchaea is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2] As of May 2019[update] it contains only two species, H. globosa and H. novaeseelandiae, but there may still be undescribed species in New Zealand.[3]
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| Holarchaea species from New Zealand, possibly Holarchaea novaeseelandiae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Anapidae |
| Genus: | Holarchaea Forster, 1955[1] |
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| H. novaeseelandiae (Forster, 1949)
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These spiders are shiny black to beige, and grow up to 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) long.[3] They are one of few spider taxa that do not have venom glands.[4]
They are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in many microhabitats that regularly have high humidity.[3][1] Originally placed with the assassin spiders, it was moved to its own family, Holarchaeidae, in 1984,[5] and Holarchaeidae was synonymized with Anapidae in 2017.[6]
References
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- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Holarchaea Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 83: 391–403.
- ^ a b c Rix, Michael G. "Holarchaeid Spiders". Australian Arachnological Society. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ^ Meier, J.; White, J., eds. (1995). Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons. CRC Press.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 71.
- ^ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 240. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.