''Neoramia charybdis'' is a species of

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 ...

that is 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. & 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 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 ...

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 Otago (, ; ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island and administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government region. Its po ...

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 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 la ...

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 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 "Naturally Uncommon".

References

Stiphidiidae Spiders described in 1910 Endemic spiders of New Zealand {{Araneomorphae-stub