Cryptaranea

Cryptaranea is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court & Raymond Robert Forster in 1988.^[2]

Cryptaranea
Cryptaranea atrihastula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Cryptaranea Court & Forster, 1988[1]
Type species
C. invisibilis (Urquhart, 1892)
Species
7, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seven species, all found in New Zealand:^[1]

• Cryptaranea albolineata (Urquhart, 1893) – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea atrihastula (Urquhart, 1891) – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea invisibilis (Urquhart, 1892) – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea stewartensis Court & Forster, 1988 – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea subalpina Court & Forster, 1988 – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea subcompta (Urquhart, 1887) – New Zealand
• Cryptaranea venustula (Urquhart, 1891) – New Zealand