Hapona

Hapona is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

Hapona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Hapona
Forster, 1970[1]
Type species
H. otagoa
(Forster, 1964)
Species

13, see text

Species

As of May 2019 it contains thirteen species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

  • Hapona amira Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Hapona aucklandensis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona crypta (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona insula (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona marplesi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona moana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Hapona momona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Hapona muscicola (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona otagoa (Forster, 1964) (type) – New Zealand
  • Hapona paihia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Hapona reinga Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
  • Hapona salmoni (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand
  • Hapona tararua Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References
  1. "Gen. Hapona Forster, 1970". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 1–184.
  3. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182.


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