Bealeyia

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = DD

| status_system = NZTCS

| taxon = Bealeyia unicolor

| authority = Forster & Platnick, 1985

| parent_authority = Forster & Platnick, 1985

}}

Bealeyia is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family orsolobidae containing the single species, Bealeyia unicolor. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985,{{cite journal| last1=Forster| first1=R. R.| last2=Platnick| first2=N. I.| year=1985| title=A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| pages=1–230| volume=181| author-link=Raymond Robert Forster| author-link2=Norman I. Platnick}} and is only found in New Zealand.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Bealeyia Forster & Platnick, 1985| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-04| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2189| doi=10.24436/2}}

Taxonomy

This species was described in 1985 by Ray Forster and Norman Platnick from male and female specimens collected in Arthurs Pass. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.

Description

The male is recorded at {{cvt|2.88|mm}} in length whereas the female is {{cvt|3.52|mm}}. The carapace is patterned dorsally.

Distribution

This species is only known from Arthurs Pass, New Zealand.

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size", "Data Poor: Trend" and "One Location".{{Cite journal |last1=Sirvid |first1=P. J. |last2=Vink |first2=C. J. |last3=Fitzgerald |first3=B. M. |last4=Wakelin |first4=M. D. |last5=Rolfe |first5=J. |last6=Michel |first6=P. |date=2020-01-01 |title=Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020 |url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs34entire.pdf |journal=New Zealand Threat Classification Series |language=English |volume=34 |pages=1–37}}

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