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Novaranea

Novaranea is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court and Raymond Robert Forster in 1988. As of April 2019, it contains only two species.

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Novaranea
Novaranea queribunda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Novaranea
Court & Forster, 19881
Type species
N. queribunda
(Keyserling, 1887)
Species
  • N. courti Framenau, 2011 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
  • N. queribunda (Keyserling, 1887) – New Zealand

Novaranea is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court and Raymond Robert Forster in 1988.2 As of April 2019, it contains only two species.1

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References

  1. "Gen. Novaranea Court & Forster, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Court, D. J.; Forster, R. R. (1988). "The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 6: 68–124.