''Ahua'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
South Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
funnel weavers first described by
Raymond Robert Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand.
Biography
Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...
& C. L. Wilton in 1973.
Species
it contains four species:
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Ahua dentata''
Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
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Ahua insula''
Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
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Ahua kaituna''
Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
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Ahua vulgaris''
Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
References
Agelenidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of New Zealand
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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