Novakiella

Novakiella is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Novakiella trituberculosa that has only been found in Australia and New Zealand.[1]

Novakiella
Novakiella trituberculosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Novakiella
Court & Forster, 1993[1]
Species:
N. trituberculosa
Binomial name
Novakiella trituberculosa
(Roewer, 1942)

Taxonomy

The genus Novakiella was first described by N. Court & Forster in 1993 as a replacement name for Novakia.[2] The sole species N. trituberculosa was originally placed in the now obsolete genus Epeira as E. tri-tuberculata.[3] Carl Friedrich Roewer temporarily moved it to Araneus while dissolving this "catch-all" taxon,[4] and it was later placed into its own genus, Novakia,[5] later renamed to Novakiella.[2]

References

  1. "Gen. Novakiella Court & Forster, 1993". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980.
  3. Urquhart, A. T. (1887). "On new species of Araneida". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 19: 78.
  4. Roewer, C. F. (1942). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940.
  5. Court, D. J.; Forster, R. R. (1988). "The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 6: 119.


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