Mangua

Mangua is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 2017.[3]

Mangua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Mangua
Forster, 1990[1]
Type species
M. gunni
Forster, 1990
Species

14, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains fourteen species, found on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

  • Mangua caswell Forster, 1990New Zealand
  • Mangua convoluta Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua flora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua forsteri (Brignoli, 1983) – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
  • Mangua gunni Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
  • Mangua hughsoni Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua kapiti Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua makarora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua medialis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua oparara Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua otira Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua paringa Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua sana Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Mangua secunda Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Mangua Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (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.
  3. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.


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