Cantuaria Explained

Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.^[1] From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.^{[2] [3]}

Species

the genus contained forty-three species, mainly from New Zealand (NZ), with one from the Australian state of Tasmania (TAS):^[4]

• Cantuaria abdita Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria allani Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria aperta Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria apica Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria assimilis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria borealis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria catlinsensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria cognata Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria collensis (Todd, 1945) – NZ
• Cantuaria delli Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria dendyi (Hogg, 1901) (type) – NZ
• Cantuaria depressa Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria dunedinensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria gilliesi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1878) – NZ
• Cantuaria grandis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria huttoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – NZ
• Cantuaria insulana Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria isolata Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria johnsi Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria kakahuensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria kakanuiensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria lomasi Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria magna Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria marplesi (Todd, 1945) – NZ
• Cantuaria maxima Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria medialis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria mestoni (Hickman, 1928) – TAS
• Cantuaria minor Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria myersi Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria napua Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria orepukiensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria parrotti Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria pilama Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria prina Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria reducta Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria secunda Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria sinclairi Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria stephenensis Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria stewarti (Todd, 1945) – NZ
• Cantuaria sylvatica Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria toddae Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria vellosa Forster, 1968 – NZ
• Cantuaria wanganuiensis (Todd, 1945) – NZ

See also

• List of Idiopidae species

Notes and References

1. Hogg. H. R.. 1902. On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 121–142. 72. II, 1. Henry_Roughton_Hogg.
2. Raven. R. J.. Wishart. G.. 2006. The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51. 545. Robert_Raven. https://web.archive.org/web/20081009151701/http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/organisation/e_prints/mqm_51_2/51_2_Raven%26Wishart.pdf. dead. 2008-10-09.
3. Raven. R. J.. 1985. The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182. 148. Robert_Raven.
4. Gen. Cantuaria Hogg, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-12. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.