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Genus of spiders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bealeyia is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae containing the single species, Bealeyia unicolor. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985,[2] and is only found in New Zealand.[1]
Bealeyia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Orsolobidae |
Genus: | Bealeyia Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
Species: | B. unicolor |
Binomial name | |
Bealeyia unicolor | |
This species was described in 1985 by Ray Forster and Norman Platnick from male and female specimens collected in Arthurs Pass. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.[2]
The male is recorded at 2.88mm in length whereas the female is 3.52mm. The carapace is patterned dorsally.[2]
This species is only known from Arthurs Pass, New Zealand.[2]
Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size", "Data Poor: Trend" and "One Location".[3]
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