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Novakiella trituberculosa

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Novakiella trituberculosa
Novakiella trituberculosa

Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Novakiella
Species:
N. trituberculosa
Binomial name
Novakiella trituberculosa
(Roewer, 1942)

Novakiella trituberculosa is a species of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders, found in Australia and New Zealand.[1]

Taxonomy

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N. trituberculosa was originally placed in the now obsolete genus Epeira as E. tri-tuberculata.[2] Carl Friedrich Roewer temporarily moved it to Araneus while dissolving this "catch-all" taxon,[3] and it was later placed into its own genus, Novakia,[4] later renamed to Novakiella.[5]

Description

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The female is recorded at 9mm in length whereas the male is 7.2mm.[4]

Distribution

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This species is native to New Zealand and Australia.[6]

Conservation status

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Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier of "Secure Overseas".[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Gen. Novakiella Court & Forster, 1993". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. ^ Urquhart, A. T. (1887). "On new species of Araneida". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 19: 78.
  3. ^ Roewer, C. F. (1942). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940.
  4. ^ a b Court, D. J.; Forster, R. R. (1988). "The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 6: 119.
  5. ^ Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. ISBN 978-0-913424-10-0.
  6. ^ Framenau, Volker W.; Vink, Cor J.; Scharff, Nikolaj; Baptista, Renner L. C.; Castanheira, Pedro de S. (2021-07-26). "Review of the Australian and New Zealand orb-weaving spider genus Novakiella (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (2): 393–405. doi:10.3897/zse.97.67788. hdl:10182/14231. ISSN 1860-0743.
  7. ^ 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.