Paranapis

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Paranapis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anapidae
Genus: Paranapis
Platnick & Forster, 1989[1]
Type species
P. insula
(Forster, 1951)
Species

Paranapis is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by Norman I. Platnick & Raymond Robert Forster in 1989.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Paranapis Platnick & Forster, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I.; Forster, R. R. (1989). "A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 190: 1–139.