Cambridgea decorata

Cambridgea decorata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Cambridgea
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Cambridgea elegans
Blest & Vink, 2000

Cambridgea decorata is a species of spiders in the genus Cambridgea found only in New Zealand. It is classified as "data deficient" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. The only published records are of specimens collected in the 1940s from Parnell (male holotype), and Waiheke Island (females). Both localities are in Auckland.

References

  1. 1 2 Blest, A.D.; Vink, C.J. 2000: New Zealand spiders: Stiphidiidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 13(supplement)
  2. ↑ Sirvid, P.J. et al. 2012: The conservation status of New Zealand Araneae. New Zealand entomologist, 35(2): 85-90. doi:10.1080/00779962.2012.686310 [see Appendix 1]