Duripelta

Duripelta is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1956.

Species

it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:

• Duripelta alta <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta australis <small>Forster, 1956</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta borealis <small>Forster, 1956</small> (type) – New Zealand
• Duripelta egmont <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta hunua <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta koomaa <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta mawhero <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta minuta <small>Forster, 1956</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta monowai <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta otara <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta pallida <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta paringa <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta peha <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta scuta <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta totara <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta townsendi <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand
• Duripelta watti <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> – New Zealand

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