Laestrygones minutissimus is a species of Toxopidae spider that is endemic to New Zealand.Forster, R. R. (1970). The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184.
Taxonomy
This species was described as Stiphidion minutissimum by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1909 from a female specimen.Hogg, H. R. (1909). Spiders and Opiliones from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. In: The Subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Wellington 1, 155-181. It has undergone numerous revisions, but was mostly recently revised in 1970.Dalmas, R. de (1917). Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 86: 317-430.Forster, R. R. (1955). Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington 2: 167-203.Forster, R. R. (1964). The Araneae and Opiliones of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific Insects Monographs 7: 58-115. The holotype is stored in Otago Museum.
Description The female is recorded at 3.48mm in length.
Distribution This species is only known from the Campbell Islands and Auckland Islands of New Zealand.
Conservation status Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Naturally Uncommon" with the qualifier of "Range Restricted".
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