Zelanda

Zelanda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Zelanda Özdikmen, 2009[1]
Type species
Z. erebus (L. Koch, 1873)
Species
6, see text

Zelanda is a genus of South Pacific ground spiders that was first described by H. Özdikmen in 2009.[1][2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains six species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

• Zelanda elongata (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
• Zelanda erebus (L. Koch, 1873) (type) – New Zealand
• Zelanda kaituna (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
• Zelanda miranda (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
• Zelanda obtusa (Forster, 1979) – New Zealand
• Zelanda titirangia (Ovtsharenko, Fedoryak & Zakharov, 2006) – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Zelanda Özdikmen, 2009". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
2. Özdikmen, H. (2009). "Nomenclatural changes for three preoccupied Australian spider genera described by R. R. Forster (Arachnida: Araneae)". Munis Entomology and Zoology. 4: 121–124.