Toxopsoides Explained

Toxopsoides is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.^[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[2]

Species

it contains four species:^[3]

• Toxopsoides erici Smith, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Toxopsoides huttoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type) – Southeastern Australia, New Zealand
• Toxopsoides kathleenae Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Toxopsoides macleayi Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. Wilton. C. L.. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.. Otago Museum Bulletin. 1–309. 4.
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. 608. 10.1111/cla.12182. 35535038.
3. Gen. Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.