Raymond Robert Forster

Raymond Robert Forster (1922–2000), New Zealander arachnologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

246 taxon names authored by Raymond Robert Forster

Publications edit

(List may be incomplete)

1944 edit

Forster, R.R. 1944: The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones. Records of the Dominion Museum 1(2): 183–192, plates 65-66. Reference page.

1948 edit

Forster, R.R. 1948: A new sub-family and species of New Zealand Opiliones. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(4&5): 313–318, plates 61-62. PDF Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1948: A new genus and species of the family Acropsopilionidae (Opiliones) from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77(1): 139–141, pl. 10. PDF Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1948. The sub-order Cyphophthalmi Simon in New Zealand. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1: 79–119. Reference page.

1954 edit

Forster, R.R. 1954. The New Zealand Harvestmen (sub-order Laniatores). Canterbury Museum Bulletin 2: 1–329. Reference page.

1955 edit

Forster, R.R. 1955: Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 2(4): 167–203. Full article on BUGZ (PDF) Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1955a. Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 83: 391-403. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3(3): 354–411. Reference page.

1956 edit

Forster, R.R. 1956: New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 7: 89–169. BUGZ Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1956a. A new spider of the genus Archaea from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13: 151-154. Reference page.

1958 edit

Forster, R.R. 1958: Spiders of the family Symphytognathidae from North and South America. American Museum Novitates 1885: 1-14. Reference page. .

1959 edit

Forster, R.R. 1959: The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269-329. Reference page.

1962 edit

Forster, R.R. 1962. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen - part 1. Tuatara 10(3): 129–137. Reference page.

1963 edit

Forster, R.R. 1963. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen - part 2. Tuatara 11(1): 28–40. Reference page.

1964 edit

Forster, R.R. 1964. The Araneae and Opiliones of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific Insects Monograph 7: 58–115. BUGZ. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1964a. The spider family Toxopidae (Araneae). Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 113-151. Reference page.

1967 edit

Forster, R.R. 1967. The spiders of New Zealand. Part I. Otago Museum bulletin (1 )

1968 edit

Forster, R.R. & Wilton, C.L. 1968. The spiders of New Zealand. Part II: Ctenizidae, Dipluridae. Otago Museum bulletin, 2. 180 pp.

1970 edit

Forster, R.R. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum bulletin 3: 1-184. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1970a. Araneae: Spiders of South Georgia. Pacific Insects Monographs 23: 31-42. Reference page.

1973 edit

Forster, R.R.; Wilton, C.L. 1973: The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Agelenidae, Stiphidiidae, Amphinectidae, Amaurobiidae, Neolanidae, Ctenidae, Psechridae. Otago Museum bulletin, 4. 309 pp. Reference page.

1974 edit

Forster, R.R. 1974. Symphytognathid spiders from Central Africa. Revue Zoologique Africaine 88: 115-126. Reference page. .

1977 edit

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1977: A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2619: 1-29. Reference page.

1979 edit

Forster, R.R. & Blest, A.D. 1979. The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae, Linyphiidae-Mynogleninae. Otago Museum Bulletin 5. Reference page.

1981 edit

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1981. A textricellid spider from Chile (Araneae, Textricellidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 263-270. Reference page.

1984 edit

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: 1–106. hdl: 2246/991 Reference page.

1985 edit

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1985: A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 1–229. handle [July 25, 1985] Reference page.

1986 edit

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1986. On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea). American Museum Novitates 2854: 1-9. Reference page. .

1987 edit

Forster, R.R., Platnick, N.I. & Gray, M.R. 1987. A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 1–116. Reference page.

1988 edit

Forster, R.R., Millidge, A.F. & Court, D.J. 1988. The spiders of New Zealand. Part VI. Cyatholipidae, Linyphiidae, Araneidae. Otago Museum Bulletin (6). Reference page.

1989 edit

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1989: A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 190: 1-139. Reference page.

1991 edit

Platnick, N.I., Coddington, J.A., Forster R.R. & Griswold, C.E. 1991. Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae), American Museum Novitates, New York, August 1991, No. 3016: 1–73. hdl: 2246/5043

1993 edit

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1993. A revision of the New Caledonian spider genus Bradystichus (Araneae, Lycosoidea). American Museum Novitates 3075: 1-14. Reference page.

1999 edit

Griswold, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1999. Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae), Journal of Arachnology, Lubbock, Texas, 1999, Vol. 27, p. 53–63. PDF.