''Kaiya'' is a

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n large-clawed spiders that was 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 ...

Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...

& Michael R. Gray in 1987.

Species

it contains four species: *''

Kaiya bemboka ''Kaiya'' is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster, Norman I. Platnick & Michael R. Gray in 1987. Species it contains four species: *'' Kaiya bemboka'' Gray, 1987 – Australia (New Sout ...

'' Gray, 1987 – Australia (New South Wales) *'' Kaiya brindabella'' (Moran, 1985) – Australian Capital Territory *'' Kaiya parnabyi'' Gray, 1987 – Australia (Victoria) *''

Kaiya terama ''Kaiya'' is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster, Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist ...

'' Gray, 1987 ( type) – Australia (New South Wales)

References

Araneomorphae genera Gradungulidae Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Araneomorphae-stub