Raymond Robert Forster

Raymond Robert Forster (1922–2000), New Zealander arachnologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

263 taxon names authored by Raymond Robert Forster

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1943

Forster, R.R. 1943. The genus Adaeum Karsch (=Algidia Hogg) in New Zealand, with descriptions of new species (Order Opiliones). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73: 68–72, plates 9-10. PDF Reference page.

1944

Forster, R.R. 1944. The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones. Records of the Dominion Museum 1(2): 183–192, plates 65-66. Reference page.

1947

Forster, R.R. 1947. A new harvestman of the subfamily Liobuninae from Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria (15): 174–177. BHL Reference page.

1948

Forster, R.R. 1948. A new sub-family and species of New Zealand Opiliones. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(4&5): 313–318, plates 61–62. PDF Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1948. A new genus and species of the family Acropsopilionidae (Opiliones) from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77(1): 139–141, pl. 10. PDF Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1948. The sub-order Cyphophthalmi Simon in New Zealand. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1: 79–119. Reference page.

1949

Forster, R.R. 1949. New Zealand spiders of the family Archaeidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 5(4): 193–203, plates XL–XLII. Reference page.

Forster, R.R. 1949. Australian Opiliones. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria (16): 59–89. BHL Reference page.

1952

Forster, R.R. 1952. Supplement to the Sub-order Cyphophthalmi. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1(9): 79–119. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1952. Western australian Opiliones. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 36: 23–29. Reference page.

1954

Forster, R.R. 1954. The New Zealand Harvestmen (sub-order Laniatores). Canterbury Museum Bulletin 2: 1–329. Reference page.

1955

Forster, R.R. 1955. Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 2(4): 167–203. PDF. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1955a. Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 83: 391-403. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3(3): 354–411. Reference page.

1956

Forster, R.R. 1956. New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 7: 89–169. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1956a. A new spider of the genus Archaea from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13: 151-154. Reference page.

1958

Forster, R.R. 1958: Spiders of the family Symphytognathidae from North and South America. American Museum Novitates 1885: 1-14. Reference page. .

1959

Forster, R.R. 1959: The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269-329. Reference page.

1962

Forster, R.R. 1962. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen - part 1. Tuatara 10(3): 129–137. Reference page.

1963

Forster, R.R. 1963. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen - part 2. Tuatara 11(1): 28–40. Reference page.

1964

Forster, R.R. 1964. The Araneae and Opiliones of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific Insects Monograph 7: 58–115. BUGZ. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1964a. The spider family Toxopidae (Araneae). Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 113-151. Reference page.

1967

Forster, R.R. 1967. The spiders of New Zealand. Part I. Otago Museum bulletin (1 )

1968

Forster, R.R. & Wilton, C.L. 1968. The spiders of New Zealand. Part II: Ctenizidae, Dipluridae. Otago Museum bulletin, 2. 180 pp.

1970

Forster, R.R. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum bulletin 3: 1-184. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1970a. Araneae: Spiders of South Georgia. Pacific Insects Monographs 23: 31-42. Reference page.

1973

Forster, R.R.; Wilton, C.L. 1973: The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Agelenidae, Stiphidiidae, Amphinectidae, Amaurobiidae, Neolanidae, Ctenidae, Psechridae. Otago Museum bulletin, 4. 309 pp. Reference page.

1974

Forster, R.R. 1974. Symphytognathid spiders from Central Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 88: 115-126. Reference page. .

1977

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1977: A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2619: 1-29. Reference page.

1979

Forster, R.R. & Blest, A.D. 1979. The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae, Linyphiidae-Mynogleninae. Otago Museum Bulletin 5. Reference page.
Forster & Gray 1979. Progradungula, a new cribellate genus of the spider family Gradungulidae (Araneae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27(6): 1051-1071. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9791051. . Reference page.

1981

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1981. A textricellid spider from Chile (Araneae, Textricellidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 263-270. Reference page.

1984

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1984. A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178: 1–106. hdl: 2246/991 Reference page.

1985

Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. 1985: A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 1–229. handle [July 25, 1985] Reference page.

1986

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1986. On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea). American Museum Novitates 2854: 1-9. Reference page. .

1987

Forster, R.R., Platnick, N.I. & Gray, M.R. 1987. A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 1–116. Reference page.

1988

Forster, R.R., Millidge, A.F. & Court, D.J. 1988. The spiders of New Zealand. Part VI. Cyatholipidae, Linyphiidae, Araneidae. Otago Museum Bulletin (6). Reference page.

1989

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1989: A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 190: 1-139. Reference page.

1991

Platnick, N.I., Coddington, J.A., Forster R.R. & Griswold, C.E. 1991. Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae), American Museum Novitates, New York, August 1991, No. 3016: 1–73. hdl: 2246/5043

1993

Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1993. A revision of the New Caledonian spider genus Bradystichus (Araneae, Lycosoidea). American Museum Novitates 3075: 1-14. Reference page.

1999

Griswold, C.E., Coddington, J.A., Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1999. Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae), Journal of Arachnology, Lubbock, Texas, 1999, Vol. 27, p. 53–63. PDF.