Parafroneta

Parafroneta marrineri female, photographed by S. E. Thorpe.

Belongs within: Linyphiidae.

Parafroneta is a genus of linyphiid spiders endemic to New Zealand in which the male palp is typically long and slender, without significant dilation apically.

<==Parafroneta Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--*P. marrineri (Hogg 1909) PVD10
    |--P. ambigua Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. confusa Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. demota Blest & Vink 2002 PVD10
    |--P. haurokoae Blest & Vink 2002 PVD10
    |--P. hirsuta Blest & Vink 2003 PVD10
    |--P. insula Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. minuta Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. monticola Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. persimilis Blest 1979 PVD10
    |--P. pilosa Blest & Vink 2003 PVD10
    |--P. subalpina Blest & Vink 2002 PVD10
    |--P. subantarctica Blest 1979 PVD10
    `--P. westlandica Blest & Vink 2002 PVD10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[PVD10] Paquin, P., C. J. Vink & N. Dupérré. 2010. Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key and species list. Manaaki Whenua Press: Lincoln (New Zealand).