Fauna of New Zealand

Fauna of New Zealand
New Zealand. Location.
Continent	Oceania
Realm(s)	Australasia
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)	Triaenonychidae; Enantiobuninae; Pettalidae
Diversity (Project WCO)	226 species (226 endemic)
Countries of Australasia	Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Melanesia: Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.

New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country has two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and around 600 smaller islands.

New Zealand has the 8th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 200 species recorded.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from New Zealand, repositories of New Zealander Opiliones and authors who worked on New Zealander opilionofauna.

New Zealand (which is part of the Australasian Realm) is one of the 25 conservation hotspots listed in Myers et al, 2000 (doi:10.1038/35002501).

New Zealand repositories of type specimens[]

• AMNZ (also AIM). Auckland Institute and Museum– Entomology, Auckland, New Zealand. Private Bag 92018, Auckland. Mr John W. Early.

• CMNZ (also CMC). Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. Rolleston Ave, Christchurch. Simon Pollard.

• MONZ (also DMW, NZNM). Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (formerly National Museum of New Zealand and until 1992, Dominion Museum of New Zealand), Wellington, New Zealand. 55 Cable St, Te Aro, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.

New Zealand taxonomists[]

• Raymond Robert FORSTER (1922-2000)
• Christopher Kenneth TAYLOR (1979-)

Literature[]

• Forster, R.R. (1948c) The sub-order Cyphophthalmi Simon in New Zealand. Dominion Museum records in entomology, Wellington, 1(7), 79–119.
• Forster, R.R. (1952a) Supplement to the Sub-order Cyphophthalmi. Dominion Museum records in entomology, Wellington, 1(9), 179–211.
• Forster, R.R. (1954) The New Zealand harvestmen (sub-order Laniatores). Canterbury Museum bulletin, Christchurch, 2, 1–329.
• Forster, R.R. (1964) The Araneae and Opiliones of the Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand. In: Gressitt, J.L. (Ed.), Insects of Campbell Island. Pacific Insects. Monograph 7. B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, pp. 58–115.
• Forster, R.R. (1965) Harvestmen of the sub-order Laniatores from New Zealand Caves, Records of the Otago Museum, Zoology, Dunedin, 2, 1–18.
• Taylor, C.K. (2013b) Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species, Zookeys, 328, 59-117.