Holarchaea | |
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Holarchaea species from New Zealand, possibly Holarchaea novaeseelandiae | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Anapidae |
Genus: | Holarchaea Forster, 1955[1] |
Type species | |
H. novaeseelandiae (Forster, 1949)
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Holarchaea is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2] As of May 2019[update] it contains only two species, H. globosa and H. novaeseelandiae, but there may still be undescribed species in New Zealand.[3]
These spiders are shiny black to beige, and grow up to 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) long.[3] They are one of few spider taxa that do not have venom glands.[4]
They are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in many microhabitats that regularly have high humidity.[3][1] Originally placed with the assassin spiders, it was moved to its own family, Holarchaeidae, in 1984,[5] and Holarchaeidae was synonymized with Anapidae in 2017.[6]