Raymond Robert Forster

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

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 246 taxon names authored by Raymond Robert Forster

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

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. 

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. 

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. Full article on BUGZ (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. BUGZ 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 Zoologique 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. 

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.