Aotearoa magna

Taxonavigation

Aotearoa magna (adult female)

Taxonavigation: Archaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Mecysmaucheniidae
Subfamilia: Mecysmaucheniinae
Genus: Aotearoa
Species: Aotearoa magna

Name

• Aotearoa magna (Forster, 1949)
  • Authority for current placement: Forster & Platnick, 1984: 63
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Original combination: Zearchaea magna
  • Original genus: Zearchaea Wilton, 1946
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated
    • Description: [adult] male
    • Repository: CMNZ
  • Type locality: '"Notornis Valley", Te Anau'

References

• Forster, R.R. 1949. New Zealand spiders of the family Archaeidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 5(4): 193–203, plates XL–XLII. Reference page. 

• Forster, R.R. 1955: Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 83(2): 391–403. BUGZ full text and pdf [see p. 393]
• Forster, R.R.; Platnick, N.I. 1984: A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (178) handle [see p. 63]
• Sirvid, P.J. et al. 2010: [Chapter] SIX Phylum ARTHROPODA CHELICERATA horseshoe crabs, arachnids, sea spiders. pp. 50–89 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3 [see p. 78, listed]