Subantarctia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2]

Subantarctia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Subantarctia
Forster, 1955[1]
Type species
S. turbotti
Forster, 1955
Species

9, see text

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found only in New Zealand:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand". Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 2: 167–203.