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Genus of spiders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dugdalea is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae containing the single species, Dugdalea oculata. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985,[2] and is only found in New Zealand.[1]
Dugdalea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Orsolobidae |
Genus: | Dugdalea Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
Species: | D. oculata |
Binomial name | |
Dugdalea oculata | |
This species was described in 1985 by Ray Forster and Norman Platnick from male and immature specimen collected in Inangahua. The holotype is stored in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection under registration number NZAC03014992.[3]
The male is recorded at 2.48mm in length. The carapace and abdomen are patterned dorsally.[2]
This species is only known Inangahua, 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".[4]
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