Holarchaea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Archaeoidea

Familia: Holarchaeidae
Genus: Holarchaea
Species: H. globosa – H. novaeseelandiae
Name

Holarchaea Forster, 1955
Gender

feminine
Type species

Archaea novaeseelandiae Forster, 1949, by original designation

References
cited sources

Forster, R.R. 1949: New Zealand spiders of the family Archaeidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 5: 193–203, plates XL-XLII.
Forster, R.R. 1955: Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 83: 391–403. PDF BUGZ

Additional references

Rix, M.G. 2005: A review of the Tasmanian species of Pararchaeidae and Holarchaeidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Journal of arachnology, 33: 135–152. PDF

Links

ION
Nomenclator Zoologicus
Australian Faunal Directory
The World Spider Catalog, V7.0 [1]

Holarchaea is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1955.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only two species, H. globosa and H. novaeseelandiae, but there may still be undescribed species in New Zealand.[3]

These spiders are shiny black to beige, and grow up to 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) long.[3] They are one of few spider taxa that do not have venom glands.[4]

They are known only from the forests of Tasmania and New Zealand, where they live in many microhabitats that regularly have high humidity.[3][1] Originally placed with the assassin spiders, it was moved to its own family, Holarchaeidae, in 1984,[5] and Holarchaeidae was synonymized with Anapidae in 2017.[6]
References

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Holarchaea Forster, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
Forster, R. R. (1955). "Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 83: 391–403.
Rix, Michael G. "Holarchaeid Spiders". Australian Arachnological Society. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
Meier, J.; White, J., eds. (1995). Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons. CRC Press.
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)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 71.
Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 240. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.