Huttonia

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Huttonia
Temporal range:
Huttonia sp. (male)

Naturally Uncommon (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Huttoniidae
Forster & Platnick, 1984
Genus: Huttonia
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879[1]
Species:
H. palpimanoides
Binomial name
Huttonia palpimanoides
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880
Distribution (green; click to enlarge)

Huttoniidae is a family of ecribellate[2] araneomorph spiders containing a single genus, Huttonia, itself containing a single described species, Huttonia palpimanoides. It is known only from New Zealand.[1]

Very few specimens of the genus were known until it was discovered that they primarily inhabited dead fronds of rainforest ferns.[3]

Taxonomy

It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880.[4][1] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to a family of its own, Huttoniidae, in 1984, in the superfamily Palpimanoidea.[5]

Fossils of this family have been found in Cretaceous (Campanian) amber from Alberta and Manitoba, Canada. This extended the known geological age of the Huttoniidae back about 80 million years, supporting the theory of H. palpimanoides being an ousted relict species.[6] They are probably most closely related to the now extinct family, Spatiatoridae.

Although only one species is described, about twenty more undescribed species are thought to exist.[7]

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Naturally Uncommon" with the qualifier of "Range Restricted".[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Huttonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  2. ^ Griswold, C.E.; et al. (1999). "Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 53–63. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-02-11.
  3. ^ Platnick, Norman I., ed. (2020). Spiders of the World: A Natural History. Princeton, NJ. p. 99. ISBN 9780691188850.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1880). "On some new and rare spiders from New Zealand, with characters of four new genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47 (4, for 1879): 681–703. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x.
  5. ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 87.
  6. ^ Penney, D.; Selden, P.A. (2006). "First fossil Huttoniidae (Araneae), in Late Cretaceous Canadian Cedar and Grassy Lake ambers". Cretaceous Research. 27: 442. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2005.07.002.
  7. ^ Forster, R.R.; Forster, L.M. (1999). Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin.
  8. ^ Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.
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