Ascuta is a genus of araneomorph spiders endemic to New Zealand in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.[2]
Species
As of June 2019 it contains fourteen species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Ascuta australis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta cantuaria Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta inopinata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta leith Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta media Forster, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
- Ascuta monowai Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta musca Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta ornata Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
- Ascuta parornata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta taupo Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta tongariro Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Ascuta univa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
See also
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Ascuta Forster, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Forster, R. R. (1956). "New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 89–169.
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