''Cycloctenus lepidus'' is a species of

Cycloctenidae Cycloctenidae is a family of spiders first described by Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by ...

spider endemic to

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 isla ...

.Forster, R. R. (1979)
The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae
''Otago Museum Bulletin'' 5: 1-95

Taxonomy

This species was described in 1890 by

Arthur Urquhart Arthur Torrane Urquhart (Switzerland, 27 October 1839 – Karaka, New Zealand, 3 October 1916) was an arachnologist and naturalist based in New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of ...

from female specimens. It was most recently revised in 1979. The syntypes are stored in Canterbury Museum.

Description

The male is recorded at 7.9mm in length whereas the female is 10.3mm. This species has various brown and black markings of varying darkness throughout the body.

Distribution

This species is only known from

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

and Manawatu 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 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

Cycloctenidae Endemic spiders of New Zealand Spiders described in 1890 {{Cycloctenidae-stub