Gasparia is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Brian J. Marples in 1956.[3] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[4]
Species
As of May 2019 it contains twenty-two species, all found in New Zealand:[1]
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Gasparia busa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia coriacea Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia delli (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is., Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
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Gasparia dentata Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia edwardsi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia kaiangaroa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
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Gasparia littoralis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia lomasi Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia mangamuka Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia manneringi (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Snares Is.)
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Gasparia montana Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia nava Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia nebulosa Marples, 1956 (type) – New Zealand
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Gasparia nelsonensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia nuntia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia oparara Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia parva Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia pluta Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia rupicola Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia rustica Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia tepakia Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
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Gasparia tuaiensis Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
References
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^ a b c "Gen. Gasparia Marples, 1956". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
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^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 235.
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^ Marples, B. J. (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 329–342.
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^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.
