Huttonia

Huttonia
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
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]

  1. ^ a b "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)