''Tinytrella'' is a genus of spiders in the family
Anapidae
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than ...
. It was first described in 2010 by Rix & Harvey. , it contains only one species, ''Tinytrella pusilla'', found in New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described by
Ray Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand Arachnology, arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand.
Biography
Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, a ...
in 1959 from male and female specimens.
[Forster, R. R. (1959)]
The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae
''Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand'' 86(3/4): 269-329. The species named was most to ''Tinytrella'', a genus created just for this species.
The holotype is stored in
Canterbury Museum.
Description
The male is recorded at 0.85mm in length whereas the female is 0.89mm.
Distribution
This species is known from scattered localities throughout New Zealand.
Conservation status
Under the
New Zealand Threat Classification System
The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand.
The system was developed because the IUCN Red List, a similar conservation status system, had s ...
, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".
References
Anapidae
Monotypic Araneomorphae genera
Endemic spiders of New Zealand
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