Nihoa (spider)

Nihoa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Barychelidae
Genus:	Nihoa; Raven & Churchill, 1992
Type species
	N. mahina; Churchill & Raven, 1992
Species
	23, see text

Nihoa is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Tracey Churchill & Robert Raven in 1992. It is named after the island Nihoa, where the type species (N. mahina) is endemic.^[2]

Male Nihoan trapdoor spiders (N. hawaiiensis) grow to almost 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long, including chelicerae. The females are larger, growing up to 21 millimetres (0.83 in).^[3]

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-three species:^[1]

(Kulczyński, 1908) – New Guinea
(Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
(L. Koch, 1874) – Palau Is.
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
(Rainbow, 1898) – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
(Raven, 1988) – Hawaii
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Nihoa mahina Churchill & Raven, 1992 (type) – Hawaii
(Kulczyński, 1908) – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – Solomon Is.
(Pocock, 1899) – New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain, New Ireland), Solomon Is.
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – Vanuatu
(Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
Raven, 1994 – New Guinea

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Gen. Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
^ Churchill, T. B.; Raven, R. J. (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.
^ Raven, Robert J. (1988-12-22). "A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. American Museum of Natural History. 2929: 1–14.

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[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Gen. Nihoa Raven & Churchill, 1992". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-16.

[Chur1992-2] Churchill, T. B.; Raven, R. J. (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.

[3] Raven, Robert J. (1988-12-22). "A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. American Museum of Natural History. 2929: 1–14.

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