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Haplinis subdola

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Haplinis subdola

Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Haplinis
Species:
H. subdola
Binomial name
Haplinis subdola
Synonyms
  • Linyphia subdola
  • Mynoglenes subdola

Haplinis subdola is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Taxonomy

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This species was described as Linyphia subdola in 1880 by Octavious Pickard-Cambridge from male and female specimens.[1] It was moved to the Mynoglenes and then the Haplinis genus in 1979 and 2002 respectively.[2][3]

Description

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The male is recorded at 3.58mm in length whereas the female is 4.67mm. This species has a dusky brown cephalothorax, brown legs and abdomen that has pale markings dorsally.[2]

Distribution

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This species is only known from the South Island of New Zealand.[3]

Conservation status

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Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880). "On some new and rare spiders from New Zealand, with characters of four new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47: 681–703.
  2. ^ a b Blest, A.D. (1979). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Linyphiidae-Mynoglenidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 5: 95–173.
  3. ^ a b Blest, A.D.; Vink, C.J. (2002). "New Zealand spiders: Linyphiidae, Mynogleninae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 16: 1–31.
  4. ^ Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.