Zearchaea fiordensis

Zearchaea fiordensis
Not Threatened
Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Mecysmaucheniidae
Genus: Zearchaea
Species:
Z. fiordensis
Binomial name
Zearchaea fiordensis
Forster, 1955

Zearchaea fiordensis is a species of Mecysmaucheniidae spider that is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was described in 1955 by Ray Forster from male and female specimens collected in the South Island. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum.

Description

The male is recorded at 1.63mm in length whereas the female is 1.57mm. This species has a yellowish brown cephalothorax, yellowish brown legs and uniform creamy white abdomen.

Distribution

This species is only known from scattered localities in the South Island of New Zealand.

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Forster, R.R. (1955). "Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 83: 391–403.
  2. ↑ Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.