Dugdalea
Sign in to saveDugdalea is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae containing the single species, Dugdalea oculata. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985, and is only found in New Zealand.
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Dugdalea is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae containing the single species, Dugdalea oculata. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985, and is only found in New Zealand.
== Taxonomy == This species was described in 1985 by Ray Forster and Norman Platnick from male and immature specimen collected in Inangahua. The holotype is stored in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection under registration number NZAC03014992.
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