Hapona Explained

Hapona is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.^[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[2]

Species

it contains thirteen species, all found in New Zealand:^[3]

• Hapona amira Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona crypta (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona insula (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona marplesi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona moana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona momona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona muscicola (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona otagoa (Forster, 1964) (type) – New Zealand
• Hapona paihia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona reinga Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
• Hapona salmoni (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
• Hapona tararua Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part III.. Otago Museum Bulletin. 1–184. 3.
2. 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.
3. Gen. Hapona Forster, 1970. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.