Waipoua is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2]

Waipoua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Waipoua
Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Type species
W. toronui
Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species

8, see text

Species

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.