Duripelta facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Duripelta |
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| Duripelta sp., male | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Duripelta Forster, 1956 |
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| D. borealis Forster, 1956
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Duripelta is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains seventeen species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:
- Duripelta alta Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta australis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Duripelta borealis Forster, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
- Duripelta egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta hunua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta koomaa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta mawhero Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta minuta Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Duripelta monowai Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta otara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta pallida (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Duripelta paringa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta peha Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta scuta Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta totara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Duripelta watti Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
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