''Hemicloea rogenhoferi,'' also known as the flattened bark spider, is a species of spider belonging to the family

Trochanteriidae Trochanteriidae is a family of spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879 containing about 52 species in6 genera. Most are endemic to Australia though ''Doliomalus'' and ''Trochanteria'' are from South America and ''Plator'' is from Asia ...

. The spider is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the east coast of Australia. It is also

naturalised Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country. It may be done automatically by a statute, i.e., without any effort on the part of the i ...

in New Zealand where it has established at sites throughout the North Island and South Island. ''Hemicloea rogenhoferi'' is a moderately large spider with a distinctively flattened body for squeezing into narrow spaces under bark.

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Gnaphosidae Spiders of Australia Spiders of New Zealand Spiders described in 1875 {{Gnaphosidae-stub