Hulua

Hulua
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Hulua
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Type species
H. convoluta
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

4, see text

Hulua is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species, all found in New Zealand:

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. ↑ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
  3. ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.