Pahoroides

Pahoroides
P. courti female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Physoglenidae
Genus:	Pahoroides Forster, 1990[1]
Type species
P. whangarei Forster, 1990
Species
8, see text

Pahoroides is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.^[2]

Species

As of September 2019^[update] it contains eight species, found on the Polynesian Islands:^[1]

• Pahoroides aucklandica Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides balli Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides confusa Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides courti Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides forsteri Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides gallina Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides kohukohu Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
• Pahoroides whangarei Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand

See also

• List of Physoglenidae species

References

1. "Gen. Pahoroides Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.