Tangata (spider) explained

Tangata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:^[2]

• Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
• Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

Notes and References

1. 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. 1–230. 181. Raymond Robert Forster. Norman I. Platnick.
2. Gen. Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.