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Toxopsoides

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Toxopsoides
Toxopsoides erici
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Toxopsoides
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
T. huttoni
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

4, see text

Toxopsoides is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

Species

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As of May 2019 it contains four species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
  3. ^ 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): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.