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. 

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) [publication date: '30 April 1970', sourced from title page] ZooBank
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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. 

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. .
• 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.
• 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
• Forster, R.R., Millidge, A.F. & Court, D.J. 1988. The spiders of New Zealand. Part VI. Otago Museum bulletin (6) [Publication date: 'March 1988', sourced from title page]

• 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. 

• Forster, R.R.; Blest, A.D. 1979: The spiders of New Zealand. Part V. Cycloctenidae, Gnaphosidae, Clubionidae, Linyphiidae-Mynogleninae. Otago Museum bulletin, 5. ZooBankReference page. 

• 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. 
• Forster, R.R. 1967. The spiders of New Zealand. Part I. Otago Museum bulletin (1 )