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Pakeha (spider)

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Pakeha
Pakeha tecta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cycloctenidae
Genus: Pakeha
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
P. protecta Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

18, see text

Pakeha is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2] The genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

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This genus was initially placed in the family Amaurobiidae[2] but was later transferred to Cycloctenidae. [3]

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains eighteen species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Pakeha Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. ^ a b Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
  3. ^ Wheeler, Ward C.; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Crowley, Louise M.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Goloboff, Pablo A.; Griswold, Charles Edward; Hormiga, Gustavo; Prendini, Lorenzo; Ramírez, Martín J.; Sierwald, Petra; Almeida-Silva, Lina; Alvarez-Padilla, Fernando; Arnedo, Miquel A.; Silva, Ligia R. Benavides; Benjamin, Suresh P. (2016-12-12). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 574–616. doi:10.1111/CLA.12182.