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Clubiona cada

species of arachnid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ2566310 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clubiona cada is a species of Clubionidae spider endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was described in 1979 by Ray Forster from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.

Description

The male is recorded at 3.9mm in length whereas the female is 4.4mm. This species has a pale yellow brown carapace and legs. The abdomen has traces of a median band and has a faint chevron pattern posteriorly.

Distribution

This species is widespread throughout New Zealand.

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Clubiona cada” as species of arachnid. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Clubiona, cada and species can be independently traced.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2566310. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clubiona cada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.