''Mangua'' is a
genus
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of
araneomorph spiders in the family
Physoglenidae that 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 ...
in 1990.
Originally placed with the
Synotaxidae
''Synotaxus'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the monotypic family Synotaxidae in 2017.
Descrip ...
, it was moved to the
Stiphidiidae in 2017.
Species
it contains fourteen species, found on the
Polynesian Islands
Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...
:
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Mangua caswell''
Forster, 1990 –
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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Mangua convoluta''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua flora''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua forsteri''
( Brignoli, 1983) – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
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Mangua gunni''
Forster, 1990 (
type
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) – New Zealand
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Mangua hughsoni''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua kapiti''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua makarora''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua medialis''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua oparara''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua otira''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua paringa''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua sana''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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Mangua secunda''
Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
See also
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List of Physoglenidae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Physoglenidae
Spiders of New Zealand
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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