Gasparia Explained

Gasparia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Brian J. Marples in 1956. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-two species, all found in New Zealand:^[2]

• Gasparia busa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia coriacea Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia delli (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is., Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
• Gasparia dentata Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia edwardsi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia kaiangaroa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
• Gasparia littoralis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia lomasi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia mangamuka Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia manneringi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Snares Is.)
• Gasparia montana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nava Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nebulosa Marples, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
• Gasparia nelsonensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia nuntia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia oparara Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia parva Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia pluta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia rupicola Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia rustica Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia tepakia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Gasparia tuaiensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Notes and References

1. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 609. 10.1111/cla.12182. 35535038.
2. Gen. Gasparia Marples, 1956. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.