''Toxopsoides'' is a

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of South Pacific

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

Toxopidae Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940. For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct. A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 201 ...

, and was 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. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.

Species

it contains four species: *'' Toxopsoides erici'' Smith, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *'' Toxopsoides huttoni'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 (

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) – Southeastern Australia, New Zealand *'' Toxopsoides kathleenae'' Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales) *'' Toxopsoides macleayi'' Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)

References

Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Australia Spiders of New Zealand Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster Toxopidae {{Toxopidae-stub