Marplesia is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand.[1]

Marplesia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Stiphidiidae
Genus: Marplesia
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
M. dugdalei
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Marplesia Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.