''Rinawa'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of South Pacific dwarf sheet 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 ...

in 1970.

Species

it contains four species, all found in

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 ...

: *'' Rinawa bola'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Rinawa cantuaria'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Rinawa otagoensis'' Forster, 1970 ( type) – New Zealand *'' Rinawa pula'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand

References

Araneomorphae genera Hahniidae Spiders of New Zealand Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Araneomorphae-stub