Wiltonia facts for kids
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Wiltonia Forster & Platnick, 1985 |
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| W. graminicola Forster & Platnick, 1985
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Wiltonia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains nine species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:
- Wiltonia elongata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia eylesi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia fiordensis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia graminicola Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
- Wiltonia lima Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia nelsonensis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia pecki Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia porina Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Wiltonia rotoiti Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
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