| Novakiella trituberculosa | |
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| Novakiella trituberculosa | |
| Conservation status | |
 Not Threatened (NZ TCS) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Novakiella |
| Species: | N. trituberculosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Novakiella trituberculosa (Roewer, 1942) | |
Novakiella trituberculosa is a species of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders, found in Australia and New Zealand.
Taxonomy
N. trituberculosa was originally placed in the now obsolete genus Epeira as E. tri-tuberculata. Carl Friedrich Roewer temporarily moved it to Araneus while dissolving this "catch-all" taxon, and it was later placed into its own genus, Novakia, later renamed to Novakiella.
Description
The female is recorded at 9mm in length whereas the male is 7.2mm.
Distribution
This species is native to New Zealand and Australia.
Conservation status
Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier of "Secure Overseas".
References
- "Gen. Novakiella Court & Forster, 1993". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- Urquhart, A. T. (1887). "On new species of Araneida". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 19: 78.
- Roewer, C. F. (1942). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940.
- ^ Court, D. J.; Forster, R. R. (1988). "The spiders of New Zealand: Part VI. Family Araneidae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 6: 119.
- Platnick, N. I. (1993). Advances in spider taxonomy 1988-1991, with synonymies and transfers 1940-1980. ISBN 978-0-913424-10-0.
- Framenau, Volker W.; Vink, Cor J.; Scharff, Nikolaj; Baptista, Renner L. C.; Castanheira, Pedro de S. (2021-07-26). "Review of the Australian and New Zealand orb-weaving spider genus Novakiella (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97 (2): 393–405. doi:10.3897/zse.97.67788. hdl:10182/14231. ISSN 1860-0743.
- Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.
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| Novakiella trituberculosa |
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