Forster RR. 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 (1): 68-72.

Forster RR. 1944. The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand, with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones. Records of the Dominion Museum 1: 183-192.

Forster RR. 1948. The suborder Cyphophthalmi in New Zealand. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1 (7): 79-119.

Forster RR. 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.

Forster RR. 1948. A key to the common spiders of the Wellington district. Tuatara 1 (2): 22-27.

Forster RR. 1948. A new sub-family and species of New Zealand Opiliones. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3 (4): 313-318.

Forster RR. 1949. The zoogeographical relationships of the New Zealand Opiliones. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77 (5): 233-235.

Forster RR. 1949. Opiliones from the Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 22 (2): 141-147.

Forster RR. 1949. New Zealand spiders of the family Archaeidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 5 (4): 193-203.

Forster RR. 1949. Australian Opiliones. Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne 16: 59-89.

Forster RR. 1951. New Zealand spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 5 (5): 231-244.

Forster RR. 1952. Supplement to the sub-order Cyphophthalmi. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1 (9): 179-211.

Forster RR. 1953. Western Australian Opiliones. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 36: 23-29.

Forster RR. 1954. The New Zealand Harvestmen (Suborder Laniatores). Canterbury Museum Bulletin 2: 1-329.

Forster RR. 1955. Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 2 (4): 167-203.

Forster RR. 1955. A new family of spiders of the sub-order Hypochilomorphae. Pacific Science 9: 277-285.

Forster RR. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 354-411.

Forster RR. 1955. Spiders of the family Archaeidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 83 (2): 391-403.

Forster RR. 1956. New Zealand spiders of the family Oonopidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 7 (2): 89-169.

Forster RR. 1956. A new spider of the genus Archaea from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13 (2): 151-154.

Forster RR. 1956. Terrestrial environments in New Zealand. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society 3: 23-24.

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

Forster RR. 1959. The spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 269-329.

Forster RR. 1961. The New Zealand fauna and its origins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 89 (1): 51-55.

Forster RR. 1962. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen. Part 1. Tuatara 10 (3): 129-137.

Forster RR. 1962. Insects of Macquarie Island. Araneida (Spiders). Pacific Insects 4 (4): 917-919.

Forster RR. 1963. A key to the New Zealand harvestmen. Part 2. Tuatara 11 (1): 28-40.

Forster RR. 1964. The spider family Toxopidae (Araneae). Annals of the Natal Museum 16: 113-151.

Forster RR. 1964. The Araneae and Opiliones of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific Insects Monographs 7: 58-115.

Forster RR. 1965. Harvestmen of the sub-order Laniatores from New Zealand caves. Records of the Otago Museum 2: 1-18.

Forster RR. 1967. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 1. Otago Museum Bulletin 1: 1-124.

Forster RR, Wilton CL. 1968. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 2. Otago Museum Bulletin 2: 1-180.

Forster RR. 1970. Araneae: Spiders of South Georgia. Pacific Insects Monographs 23: 31-42.

Forster RR. 1970. Myriapoda and Arachnida. New Zealand Entomologist 4 (3): 55-59.

Forster RR. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 3. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1970. Small Land Animals of New Zealand. John McIndoe, Dunedin, 175 pp.

Forster RR. 1971. Notes on an airborne spider found in Antarctica. Pacific Insects Monographs 25: 119-120.

Forster RR. 1973. Biogeography of the New Zealand Arachnida. New Zealand Entomologist 5 (3-4): 252-253.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1973. New Zealand Spiders. An Introduction. Collins, Auckland, 254 pp.

Forster RR, Wilton CL. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 4. Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1-309.

Forster RR. 1974. Symphytognathid spiders from Central Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 88 (1): 115-126.

Forster RR. 1974. False scorpions. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 3 (32): 883-884.

Forster RR. 1974. Harvestmen. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 4 (49): 1374-1376.

Forster RR. 1975. The spiders and harvestmen. Pp. 493-505 In: Kuschel G. (ed) Biogeography and ecology in New Zealand. W. Junk, The Hague.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: an introduction. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 5(70): 1937-1942.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: trapdoor spiders and their kin. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 5(71): 1986-1990.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: the orbweb spiders. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 5(72): 2003-2007.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: hunting spiders. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 5(73): 2038-2041.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: the katipo and other web spiders. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 5(74): 2061-2065.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1975. Spiders: jumping spiders. New Zealand's Nature Heritage 6(76): 2114-2117.

Forster RR. 1975. Fiordland National Park (2). New Zealand's Nature Heritage 7 (100): 2800-2802.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1976. The Small World: The Community Life of Small Land Animals. School Publications Branch, Department of Education, Wellington, 64 pp.

Forster RR. 1977. La Faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène, Family Symphytognathidae. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale 220: 129-131.

Forster RR, Platnick NI. 1977. A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum Novitates 2619: 1-29.

Forster RR, Blest AD. 1979. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 5. Otago Museum Bulletin 5: 1-173.

Forster RR, Gray MR. 1979. Progradungula, a new cribellate genus of the spider family Gradungulidae (Araneae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 1051-1071.

Forster RR. 1980. Evolution of the tarsal organ, the respiratory system, and the female genitalia in spiders. Pp. 269-284 In: Gruber J. (ed) Proceedings. 8th Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress.H. Egermann, Vienna.

Forster RR, Platnick NI. 1981. A textricellid spider from Chile (Araneae, Textricellidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170 (1): 263-270.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1982. On the Micromygalinae, a new subfamily of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Microstigmatidae). American Museum Novitates 2734: 1-13.

Forster RR. 1984. Reviews: a catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981 by Paola Brignoli. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 14 (2): 209.

Forster RR, Platnick NI. 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): 1-106.

Forster LM, Forster RR. 1985. A derivative of the orb web and its evolutionary significance. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 455-465.

Forster RR, Platnick NI. 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: 1-230.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1986. On Teutoniella, an American genus of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Araneae, Palpimanoidea). American Museum Novitates 2854: 1-9.

Forster RR, Platnick NI, Gray MR. 1987. A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185 (1): 1-116.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1987. On the first American spiders of the subfamily Sternodinae (Araneae, Malkaridae). American Museum Novitates 2894: 1-12.

Forster RR, Millidge AF, Court DJ. 1988. The spiders of New Zealand. Part 6. Otago Museum Bulletin 6: 1-124.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 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.

Forster RR, Platnick NI, Coddington JA. 1990. A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 193: 1-116.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1990. On the spider family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) in the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 98 (1): 108-112.

Platnick NI, Coddington JA, Forster RR, Griswold CE. 1991. Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae). American Museum Novitates 3016: 1-73.

Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1993. A revision of the New Caledonian spider genus Bradystichus (Araneae, Lycosoidea). American Museum Novitates 3074: 1-30.

Forster RR. 1995. The Australasian spider family Periegopidae Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Sicarioidea). Records of the Western Australian Museum (Supplement No. 52): 91-105.

Griswold CE, Coddington JA, Platnick NI, Forster RR. 1999. Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). The Journal of Arachnology 27 (1) : 53-63.

Forster RR, Forster LM. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. University of Otago