''Parafroneta'' is a
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dwarf spiders that was first described by A. D. Blest in 1979.
Species
it contains fourteen species:
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Parafroneta ambigua''
Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta confusa''
Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta demota
''Parafroneta demota'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2002 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under registrat ...
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Blest & Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta haurokoae
''Parafroneta haurokoae'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2002 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under regi ...
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Blest & Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta hirsuta
''Parafroneta hirsuta'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2003 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under registra ...
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Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta insula''
Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta marrineri
''Parafroneta marrineri'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.Hogg, H. R. (1909)Spiders and Opiliones from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand In: The Subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Wellington 1, 155-181.
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) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
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Parafroneta minuta
''Parafroneta minuta'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1979 by A.D Blest from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.
Description
The male is recor ...
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Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta monticola
''Parafroneta monticola'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1979 by A.D Blest from a female specimen. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.
Description
The female is recorded ...
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Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta persimilis
''Parafroneta persimilis'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1979 by A.D Blest from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.
Description
The male is r ...
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Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta pilosa
''Parafroneta pilosa'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2003 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from a male specimen. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under registration number ...
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Blest & Vink, 2003 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta subalpina
''Parafroneta subalpina'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2002 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under regist ...
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Blest & Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta subantarctica
''Parafroneta subantarctica'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1979 by A.D Blest from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection ...
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Blest, 1979 – New Zealand
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Parafroneta westlandica
''Parafroneta westlandica'' is a species of sheet weaver spider endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 2002 by A.D Blest and Cor Vink from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under regi ...
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Blest & Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
See also
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List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)
This page lists all described species of the spider family Linyphiidae as of July 12, 2020, from I to P, of World Spider Catalog version 21.0
''Ibadana''
''Ibadana'' Locket & Russell-Smith, 1980
* '' Ibadana cuspidata'' Locket & Russell-Smith, ...
References
Araneomorphae genera
Linyphiidae
Spiders of New Zealand
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