Topic
Pahoroides
About: Pahoroides is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: The hypothesis that the two Pahoroides species have similar habitat preferences at the macroscale, but not at the microscale is supported, and it is concluded that host plant species is a dominant factor that enables the species to coexist.
Abstract: Spiders in the endemic New Zealand genus Pahoroides (Araneae: Synotaxidae) are all morphologically very similar. Two species, Pahoroides whangarei and Pahoroides confusa, coexist in Pukenui Forest near Whangarei, Northland, living in vegetation close to the ground. We tested the hypothesis that P. whangarei and P. confusa occupy distinct ecological niches defined more by conditions at the microhabitat level than at the macrohabitat level. Twenty random sites within Pukenui Forest, from which a range of macrohabitat and microhabitat variables were collected, were sampled by beating vegetation for Pahoroides spiders. Both species were distributed throughout the forest, and in many cases, were found at the same sites. However, neither the presence nor abundance of one Pahoroides species was associated with that of the other. Whereas macrohabitat variables such as aspect, litter cover and overall plant community composition were not associated with either species, a significant association was found between P...
5 citations
1 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The genus Pahoroides (Araneae: Synotaxidae: Pahorinae), endemic to New Zealand, is redescribed and revised, with two known species and six new species described.
Abstract: The genus Pahoroides (Araneae: Synotaxidae: Pahorinae), endemic to New Zealand, is redescribed and revised. Two known species are redescribed and six new species are described (Pahoroides balli, P. kohukohu, P. confusa, P. gallina, P. aucklandica and P. forsteri). The original description of the type species, Pahoroides whangarei Forster, 1990, includes illustrations of the male palp of a second, undescribed species, described here as P. confusa. The genus is presently known only from the northern half of the North Island.
2 citations
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