Subantarctia Explained

Subantarctia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species, found only in New Zealand:^[2]

• Subantarctia centralis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia dugdalei Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia fiordensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia florae Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia muka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia penara Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia stewartensis Forster, 1956 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia trina Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Subantarctia turbotti Forster, 1955 (type) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. 1955. Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 167–203. 2. Raymond Robert Forster.
2. Gen. Subantarctia Forster, 1955. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.