Biology:Aorangia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Aorangia
Aorangia male.jpg
Aorangia sp. (male)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Stiphidiidae
Genus: Aorangia
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
A. ansa
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

16, see text

Aorangia is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains sixteen species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

  • Aorangia agama Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia ansa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia fiordensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia isolata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia kapitiensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia mauii Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia muscicola Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia obscura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia otira Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia pilgrimi Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia poppelwelli Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia pudica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia semita Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia silvestris Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia singularis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Aorangia tumida Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Aorangia Forster & Wilton, 1973". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/132. Retrieved 2019-05-08. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.". Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1–309. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2255095 entry