Diploplecta
Colour photos of the dorsal and side view of an adult male Drapetisca australis spider, about 1.7 mm in length. The spider is mainly straw yellow with a black stripe going down its abdomen.
Adult male Drapetisca australis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Diploplecta
Millidge, 1988[1]
Type species
D. communis
Millidge, 1988
Species

9, see text

Diploplecta is a genus of South Pacific dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1988.[2]

Species

As of May 2021 it contains nine species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

  • Diploplecta adjacens Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta australis (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.)
  • Diploplecta communis Millidge, 1988 (type) – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta duplex Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta nuda Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta opaca Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta proxima Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta pumilio (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
  • Diploplecta simplex Millidge, 1988 – New Zealand

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Diploplecta Millidge, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  2. ↑ Millidge, A. F. (1988). "The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Linyphiidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 6: 35–67.


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