Zealanapis kuscheli

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Zealanapis kuscheli is a tiny spider that lives only in New Zealand. It belongs to the Anapidae family and was described in 1989 by Norman Platnick and Ray Forster from male and female specimens found in Auckland. The holotype is kept in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC03014955). The male is about 1.01 mm long and the female about 1.12 mm. This species has been found only at a couple of places on the North Island.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anapidae
Genus: Zealanapis
Species: Z. kuscheli

Conservation status:
Data Deficient (NZ Threat Classification System) with qualifiers Data Poor: Size and Data Poor: Trend.