Biology:Rinawa

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Rinawa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Rinawa
Forster, 1970[1]
Type species
R. otagoensis
Forster, 1970
Species

4, see text

Rinawa is a genus of South Pacific dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains four species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

  • 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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Rinawa Forster, 1970. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1042. Retrieved 2019-06-07. 
  2. Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III.". Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1–184. 

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