Primary type specimens in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection: Araneae (spiders)

Version 1 - December 1998

Grace Hall
Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
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This is a list of 66 primary type specimens of Araneae housed in the N.Z. Arthropod Collection (NZAC) and which since July 1992 have been under the stewardship of Landcare Research. Since April 2004 the collection has been housed in new facilities at a site associated with the Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland, Auckland. Between October 1973 and April 2004 NZAC was housed at the Mt Albert Research Centre, Auckland.

Most of the publications in which these Spider species were described stated that the primary types were deposited in a DSIR collection located at Auckland or Nelson, or at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Between October 1989 and June 1992 NZAC was under the stewardship of DSIR Plant Protection based in Auckland, and before this (October 1973 to September 1989) with Entomology Division, DSIR based in Auckland. Up to September 1973 the major part of NZAC was located at Entomology Division, DSIR (before 1956 as Cawthron Institute or Entomological Research Station) in Nelson, and part was under the stewardship of Plant Diseases Division, DSIR at Mt Albert, Auckland. When Entomology Division, DSIR transferred to the Mt Albert Research Centre site in Auckland from Nelson the two DSIR collections were amalgamated and named NZAC.

The list is in two parts:

The list is based on records in the NZAC specimen database.

NZAC Araneae specimens are available for borrowing by bona fide researchers. Before primary type specimens of species described from New Zealand can be sent outside New Zealand, we must obtain a Temporary Export Certificate from the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage (formerly Department of Internal Affairs) so as to comply with the Antiquities Act legislation of New Zealand. We are required to provide the reference details for the publication describing the species requested, and the name and address of the researcher and institution requesting the primary types. It usually takes about a month to obtain the certificate.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology under contract no. C09812. I thank Dominic Thoreau for his computer programming expertise in bringing this document together from the database of types I prepared.
Requests to borrow specimens, or information about NZAC holdings, should be be sent to:
Curator of Spiders, Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
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Part 1: Alphabetical by Species

Part 2: Alphabetical by Family

Amaurobiidae

    Mala cavernicola Forster & Wilton, 1973, holotype

Amphinectidae

    Paramamoea insulanus Forster & Wilton, 1973, holotype
    Reinga grossa Forster & Wilton, 1973, holotype
    Rorea aucklandensis Forster & Wilton, 1973, holotype

Anapidae

    Paranapis isolata Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Zealanapis insula Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Zealanapis kuscheli Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Zealanapis punta Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Zelanapsis waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype

Araneidae

    Cryptaranea stewartensis Court & Forster, 1988, holotype

Clubionidae

    Clubiona producta Forster, 1979, holotype

Cyatholopidae

    Hanea paturau Forster, 1988, holotype

Cycloctenidae

    Cycloctenus paturau Forster, 1979, holotype
    Toxopsiella horningi Forster, 1979, holotype
    Toxopsiella nelsonensis Forster, 1979, holotype

Gnaphosidae

    Hypodrassodes insulanus Forster, 1979, holotype

Hexathelidae

    Hexathele cavernicola Forster, 1968, holotype
    Hexathele exemplar Parrott, 1960, holotype

Idiopidae

    Cantuaria parrotti Forster, 1968, holotype

Linyphiidae

    Diploplecta adjacens Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Diploplecta proxima Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Dunedinia denticulata Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Dunedinia pullata Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Laetesia chathami Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Laetesia distincta Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Laetesia prominens Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Maorineta minor Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Maorineta mollis Millidge, 1988, holotype
    Mynoglenes brevipes Blest, 1979, holotype
    Mynoglenes contorta Blest, 1979, holotype
    Mynoglenes horningi Blest, 1979, holotype
    Mynoglenes minutissima Blest, 1979, holotype
    Mynoglenes tegulata Blest, 1979, holotype
    Parafroneta subantarctica Blest, 1979, holotype
    Promynoglenes grandis Blest, 1979, holotype

Migidae

    Migas cumberi Wilton, 1968, holotype
    Migas giveni Wilton, 1968, holotype
    Migas solitarius Wilton, 1968, holotype

Orsolobidae

    Anopsolobus subterraneus Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Ascuta cantauria Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Ascuta insula Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Dugdalea oculata Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta alta Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta hunua Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta mawhero Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta scuta Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Duripelta watti Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Orongia whangamoa Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Pounamuella insula Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Pounamuella kuscheli Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Subantarctia muka Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Subantarctia penara Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata sylvesta Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Turretia dugdalei Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Waiporia chathamensis Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Waiporia egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Waiporia ruahine Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Wiltonia eylesi Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
    Wiltonia fiordensis Forster & Platnick, 1985, holotype
This document was modified 8 February 1999, in order to correct the use of parentheses around author names. No other changes were made.
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