Rayforstia scuta ( Forster, 1959 ) Rix & Harvey, 2010

Rix, Michael & Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, ZooKeys 36 (36), pp. 1-321 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.36.306

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ADCACC88-6C78-4386-8E33-3F98234ECE92

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789361

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E13878E-FF8A-1B47-FF32-1E01FEDC890B

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rayforstia scuta ( Forster, 1959 )
status

comb. nov.

Rayforstia scuta ( Forster, 1959) , comb. n.

Figs 86H View Figure 86 , 87H View Figure 87

Textricella scuta Forster, 1959: 293 , figs 46–50 (holotype male from Norsewood, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, in MNZ, not examined). Brignoli, 1983: 375. Platnick, 2009.

Selected material examined. NEW ZEALAND: North Island: Hawke’s Bay: Norsewood , 27.I.1948, P. Culliford, 3♀ ( MCZ) ; same data, 4♁, 9♀ ( AMNH) ; Norsewood Motor Camp , 14.VII.1966, R. Forster, 1♁ ( AMNH) . Waikato: Lake Rotopounamu, SW. of Turangi , 4–9.IV.1980, A. Newton, M. Thayer, 4♁ ( AMNH) ; Taumarunui County, S. side of Whakapapanui Stream , 18.I.1967, K. Wise, 1♁, 2♀ ( AMNH) . South Island: Canterbury: Lewis Pass , 1.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁ ( WAM T94454) .

Remarks. Rayforstia scuta is an unusual, widespread species from the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It is most similar to the other six-eyed species of Rayforstia described from New Zealand ( R. plebeia , R. propinqua , R. salmoni and R. wisei ), but can be distinguished by the distinctive shape of the male anterior sclerite, which extends posteriorly well beyond the epigastric furrow (see Forster 1959, fig. 46).

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

WAM

Western Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Micropholcommatidae

Genus

Rayforstia

Loc

Rayforstia scuta ( Forster, 1959 )

Rix, Michael & Harvey, Mark 2010
2010
Loc

Textricella scuta

Brignoli PM 1983: 375
Forster RR 1959: 293
1959
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