Marplesia is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Stiphidiidae |
Genus: | Marplesia Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
Type species | |
M. dugdalei Forster & Wilton, 1973
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Species | |
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References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Marplesia Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ 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.