Cambridgea foliata
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| Cambridgea foliata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Cambridgea |
| Species: | C. foliata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cambridgea foliata (Koch, 1872) | |
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Cambridgea foliata, commonly known as the New Zealand sheet-web spider, is a species of spider in the family Desidae.[1] These nocturnal, arboreal spiders are endemic to the North Island of New Zealand and build large horizontal sheet-webs with a large number of knock-down threads.[2][1]
This species was described as Tengeria foliata by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.[3] It was moved to the Cambridgea genus in 1898.[4] It was most recently revised in 1973. The holotype location is considered unknown.[1]
Description
C. foliata have a reddish-brown cephalothorax and greyish yellow abdomen. While males and females of this species are of a similar size with a cephalothorax width of approximately 5.8mm, males have significantly longer chelicerae compared to females.[5] While males of other Cambridgea species possess a stridulatory organ on the dorsal surface of the pedicel and abdomen,[6] it is absent in male C. foliata.[1]
Distribution
This species is only known from the North Island and the north end of the South Island of New Zealand.[1]
