Oxyopes gracilipes is a species of lynx spider that is native to New Zealand and Australia.
Taxonomy Oxyopes gracilipes was first described in 1849 as Sphasus gracilipes.White, A. (1849). Descriptions of apparently new species of Aptera from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17: 3-6. (reprinted in Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2) 5: 50-53, 1850) The species was described again in 1878 as Oxyopes elegans.Koch, L. (1878a). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1, 969-1044. In 1885, Arthur Urquhart described the spider again as Sphasus gregarius. Urquhart, A. T. (1885). On the spiders of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 17: 31-53. In 1892, Urquhart moved S. gregarius to the Oxyopes genus.Urquhart, A. T. (1892a). Catalogue of the described species of New Zealand Araneidae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 24: 220-230. In 1998, S. gracilipes was moved to the Oxyopes genus and O. gregarius was recognized as a synonym of this species.Vink, C. & Sirvid, P. J. (1998). The Oxyopidae (lynx spiders) of New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 21: 1-9.
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