Otira (spider)

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

Otira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Otira
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
O. satura Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

6, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains six species:[1]

  • Otira canasta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira indura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira liana Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira parva Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira satura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira terricola Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

References

  1. "Gen. Otira Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.


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