Nihoa (spider)
| Nihoa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Barychelidae |
| Genus: | Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 24 species | |
Nihoa is a spider genus in the mygalomorph family Barychelidae.
Name
The genus is named after the island Nihoa, where the type species (N. mahina) is endemic.
Appearance
N. hawaiiensis males have a length of almost 15 mm, including cheliceres; females are up to 21 mm.
Distribution
Species of this genus occur in Oceania.
Species
- Nihoa annulata (Kulczynski, 1908) — New Guinea
- Nihoa annulipes (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Nihoa aussereri (L. Koch, 1874) — Palau
- Nihoa bisianumu Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa courti Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa crassipes (Rainbow, 1898) — New Guinea
- Nihoa gressitti Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa gruberi Raven, 1994 — New Ireland
- Nihoa hawaiiensis (Raven, 1988) — Hawaii
- Nihoa itakara Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa kaindi Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa karawari Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa lambleyi Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa madang Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa mahina Churchill & Raven, 1992 — Hawaii
- Nihoa maior (Kulczynski, 1908) — New Guinea
- Nihoa mambulu Raven, 1994 — Solomon Islands
- Nihoa pictipes (Pocock, 1899) — New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon Islands
- Nihoa raleighi Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa tatei Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
- Nihoa vanuatu Raven, 1994 — New Hebrides
- Nihoa variata (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Nihoa verireti Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
References
- Churchill, T. B. & R. J. Raven. 1992. Systematics of the intertidal trapdoor spider genus Idioctis (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) in the western Pacific with a new genus from the northeast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32: 9-30. (Abstract)
- A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae). American Museum Novitates 2929:1-14. PDF (first description of N. hawaiiensis)
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