Huttonia
{{Short description|Family of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cretaceous|present}}
| status = NU
| status_system = NZTCS
| taxon = Huttonia palpimanoides
| image = Huttonia_sp._male.jpg
| image_caption = Huttonia sp. (male)
| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880
| parent_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879
| grandparent_authority = Forster & Platnick, 1984
| range_map = Distribution.huttoniidae.1.png
| range_map_upright = 1.1
| range_map_caption = Distribution (green; click to enlarge)
}}
Huttoniidae is a family of ecribellate{{cite journal| last=Griswold| first=C.E.| display-authors=etal| year=1999| title=Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)| journal=Journal of Arachnology| volume=27| pages=53–63| url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0053.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211140329/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0053.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2006-02-11}} araneomorph spiders containing a single genus, Huttonia, itself containing a single described species, Huttonia palpimanoides. It is known only from New Zealand.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Huttonia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-06-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1075| doi=10.24436/2}}
Very few specimens of the genus were known until it was discovered that they primarily inhabited dead fronds of rainforest ferns.{{cite book |editor1-last=Platnick |editor1-first=Norman I. |title=Spiders of the World: A Natural History |date=2020 |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=9780691188850 |page=99}}
Taxonomy
It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880.{{cite journal| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1880| title=On some new and rare spiders from New Zealand, with characters of four new genera.| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=681–703| volume=47| issue=4, for 1879| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/67264| author-link=Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}} Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to a family of its own, Huttoniidae, in 1984, in the superfamily Palpimanoidea.{{cite journal| last1=Forster| first1=R. R.| last2=Platnick| first2=N. I.| year=1984| title=A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=178| page=87}}
Fossils of this family have been found in Cretaceous (Campanian) amber from Alberta and Manitoba, Canada. This extended the known geological age of the Huttoniidae back about 80 million years, supporting the theory of H. palpimanoides being an ousted relict species.{{cite journal| last1=Penney| first1=D.| last2=Selden| first2=P.A.| year=2006| title=First fossil Huttoniidae (Araneae), in Late Cretaceous Canadian Cedar and Grassy Lake ambers| journal=Cretaceous Research| volume=27| page=442| doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2005.07.002}} They are probably most closely related to the now extinct family, Spatiatoridae.
Although only one species is described, about twenty more undescribed species are thought to exist.{{cite book| last1=Forster| first1=R.R.| last2=Forster| first2=L.M.| year=1999| title=Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin}}
Conservation status
Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Naturally Uncommon" with the qualifier of "Range Restricted".{{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}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Huttonia|Huttonia}}
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Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera