''Orepukia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders in the family

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 ...

, known only from

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 ...

. First described by

Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand 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, and was educa ...

& C. L. Wilton in 1973, it was originally placed in

Agelenidae The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus ''Agelenopsis''. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans, but the bite of the hobo spider (''Era ...

, but was transferred to

in 2017. Their webs are built on the ground between fallen branches, logs, and other debris, and they are commonly found on the

South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ...

, but hardly ever anywhere else. They range in size from and lack a

cribellum Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or ...

. Their eight eyes are in two rows, the

anterior Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of humans and other animals. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position pro ...

row straight and the other slightly curved. Their jaws are vertical and the labium is notched near the base.

Species

it contains twenty-four species: *'' Orepukia alta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia catlinensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia dugdalei'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia egmontensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia florae'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia geophila'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia grisea'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia insula'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia nota'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia nummosa'' (Hogg, 1909) — New Zealand *'' Orepukia orophila'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia pallida'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia poppelwelli'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia prina'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia rakiura'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia redacta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia riparia'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia sabua'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia similis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia simplex'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia sorenseni'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia tanea'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia tonga'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Orepukia virtuta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2883374 Cycloctenidae Endemic spiders of New Zealand Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster