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Neoramia Charybdis
''Neoramia charybdis'' is a species of Stiphidiidae that is endemic to New Zealand.Forster, R. R. & Wilton, C. L. (1973)The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV ''Otago Museum Bulletin'' 4: 1-309 Taxonomy This species was first described as ''Amaurobius charybdis'' in 1910 by Henry Roughton Hogg from a male specimen. It was mostly recently revised in 1973, in which it was moved to '' Neoramia'' genus. It is the type species for this genus. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum. Description The male and female are recorded at 12.2mm in length. The cephalothorax is coloured orange yellow and is darker anteriorly. The legs are yellow brown with some dark bands. The abdomen is greyish brown with pale markings dorsally. Distribution This species is known from Southland, Stewart Island and Campbell Island in 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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Roughton Hogg
Henry Roughton Hogg (9 February 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British amateur arachnologist and businessman who lived in both Australia and Britain. Hogg emigrated to Australia in December 1873 and co-founded a mercantile and shipping agency in Melbourne, becoming a prominent member of the business community. He joined the Field Naturalists' Club and the Royal Society of Victoria and acquired a specialist knowledge of the Spider, spiders of Australia and New Zealand. Hogg was given access to specimens of spiders collected by the 1894 Horn expedition, Horn scientific expedition to central Australia and contributed the section on spiders in the published results of the expedition. Hogg and his wife returned to England in August 1900. He continued to study spiders and contributed regular articles to the ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' and other publications and scientific journals, often providing the first descriptions of new species. His earlier papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stiphidiidae
Stiphidiidae, also called sheetweb spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described in 1917. Most species are medium size ('' Stiphidion facetum'' is about long) and speckled brown with long legs. All members of this family occur in New Zealand and Australia except for '' Asmea''. They build a horizontal sheet-like web under rocks, hence the name "sheetweb spiders". Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: *'' Aorangia'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Asmea'' Gray & Smith, 2008 — Papua New Guinea *'' Borrala'' Gray & Smith, 2004 — Australia *'' Carbinea'' Davies, 1999 — Australia *'' Couranga'' Gray & Smith, 2008 — Australia *'' Elleguna'' Gray & Smith, 2008 — Australia *'' Jamberoo'' Gray & Smith, 2008 — Australia *'' Kababina'' Davies, 1995 — Australia *'' Karriella'' Gray & Smith, 2008 — Australia *'' Malarina'' Davies & Lambkin, 2000 — Australia *'' Marplesia'' Lehtinen, 1967 — New Zealand *'' Neolana'' Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The Geography of New Zealand, country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps (), owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. Capital of New Zealand, New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoramia
''Neoramia'' is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. Species it contains twenty-two species, all from New Zealand: *'' Neoramia allanae'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Neoramia alta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *''Neoramia charybdis ''Neoramia charybdis'' is a species of Stiphidiidae that is endemic to New Zealand.Forster, R. R. & Wilton, C. L. (1973)The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV ''Otago Museum Bulletin'' 4: 1-309 Taxonomy This species was first described as ''Amaurob ...'' (Hogg, 1910) – New Zealand *'' Neoramia childi'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Neoramia crucifera'' (Hogg, 1909) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.) *'' Neoramia finschi'' (L. Koch, 1872) – New Zealand *'' Neoramia fiordensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Neoramia hoggi'' (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Neoramia hokina'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tūhura Otago Museum
Tūhura Otago Museum, located near the city center of Dunedin, New Zealand, adjacent to the University of Otago campus, is one of the country's largest museums and a prominent attraction in the city. The museum's extensive collections encompass natural science specimens and humanities artifacts from the Otago region and around the world, which are featured in its long-term gallery displays. A notable feature of the museum is its interactive science center, which includes an immersive tropical rainforest butterfly house. In 2022, the museum was officially renamed Tūhura Otago Museum, incorporating the Māori name "Tūhura," meaning "to discover, investigate, and explore." History Origins The name "Otago Museum" was first used by James Hector to describe his geological collections on display at the 1865 New Zealand Exhibition, held in Dunedin. Some of these collections were the nucleus of the Otago Museum, which first opened to the public on 12 September 1868. The museum was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southland Region
Southland () is New Zealand's southernmost region. It consists of the southwestern portion of the South Island and includes Stewart Island. Southland is bordered by the culturally similar Otago Region to the north and east, and the West Coast Region in the extreme northwest. The region covers over 3.1 million hectares and spans 3,613 km of coastline. , Southland has a population of 103,900, making it the eleventh-most-populous New Zealand region, and the second-most sparsely populated. Approximately half of the region's population lives in Invercargill, Southland's only city. The earliest inhabitants of Southland were Māori of the Waitaha iwi, followed later by Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu. Early European arrivals were sealers and whalers, and by the 1830s, Kāi Tahu had built a thriving industry supplying whaling vessels, looked after whalers and settlers in need, and had begun to integrate with the settlers. By the second half of the 19th century these industrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Island
Stewart Island (, ' glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island with a land area of . Its coastline is indented by Paterson Inlet (east), Port Pegasus (south), and Mason Bay (west). The island is generally hilly (rising to at Mount Anglem) and densely forested. Flightless birds, including penguins, thrive because there are few introduced predators. Almost all the island is owned by the New Zealand government, and over 80 percent of the island forms Rakiura National Park. Stewart Island's economy depends on fishing and summer tourism. Its permanent population was recorded at 408 people in the 2018 census. Most residents live in the settlement of Oban on the eastern side of the island. Ferries connect Oban to Bluff in the South Island. Stewart Island is part of the Southland District for local government p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Island, New Zealand
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku is an uninhabited subantarctic island of New Zealand, and the main island of the Campbell Island group. The island lies around south of New Zealand's South Island. It covers of the group's , and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island (or Folly Islands), Isle de Jeanette-Marie, and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the southernmost extremity of New Zealand. It is mountainous, rising to over in the south. A long fiord, Perseverance Harbour, nearly bisects it, opening out to sea on the east coast. The island is listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands. The island is an immediate part of New Zealand, but not part of any region or district, but instead ''Area Outside Territorial Authority'', like all other outlying islands, other than the Solander Islands. It is the closest piece of land to the antipodal point of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the city furthest away is Limerick, Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 some shortcomings for the unique requirements of conservation ranking in New Zealand. plants, animals, and fungi are evaluated, though the lattermost has yet to be published. Algae were assessed in 2005 but not reassessed since. Other protist A protist ( ) or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but are a paraphyletic grouping of all descendants of the last eukaryotic common ancest ...s have not been evaluated. Categories Species that are ranked are assigned categories: ;Threatened :This category has three major divisions: :*Nationally Critical - equivalent to the IUCN category of Critically endangered :*Nationally Endangered - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiders Described In 1910
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 53,034 spider species in 136 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel. However, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had a separate thor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
