Huttonia
Huttoniidae is a family of ecribellate araneomorph spiders containing a single genus, Huttonia, itself containing a single described species, Huttonia palpimanoides. It is known only from New Zealand.
| Huttonia Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Huttonia sp. (male) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Huttoniidae Forster & Platnick, 1984 |
| Genus: | Huttonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 |
| Species: | H. palpimanoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Huttonia palpimanoides O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880 | |
| Distribution (green; click to enlarge) | |
Very few specimens of the genus were known until it was discovered that they primarily inhabited dead fronds of rainforest ferns.
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