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''Aotearoa magna'' is a species of spiders in the
Mecysmaucheniidae
Mecysmaucheniidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. Most genera occur in South America (Chile and Argentina), with two genera endemic to New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the ...
family. It was first described in 1949 by Forster. , it is the only species in the genus ''Aotearoa'', erected by Forster and Platnick in 1984. It is found in New Zealand. (The Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
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name of the island nation is Aotearoa
''Aotearoa'' () is the Māori name for New Zealand. The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as ''Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu'' – where ''Te Ika-a-Māui'' means N ...
.)
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1949 byRay 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 ...
from male and female specimens collected in Fiordland
Fiordland (, "The Pit of Tattooing", and also translated as "the Shadowlands"), is a non-administrative geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western third of Southland. Most of F ...
. In 1984, it was moved into the ''Aotearoa'' genus by Ray Forster and Norman Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator E ...
, of which it is the sole member. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum.
Description
The male is recorded at 2.62mm in length whereas the female is 3.83mm. This species has a dark brown carapace and a greyish yellow abdomen. The head has dark brown markings dorsally near the eyes.
Distribution
This species is only known from Fiordland, New Zealand.Conservation status
Under theNew 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
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q2857986, from2=Q13429992 Mecysmaucheniidae Endemic spiders of New Zealand Spiders described in 1949