Biology:Otira (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Otira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Otira
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
O. satura Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

6, see text

Otira is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains six species:[1]

  • Otira canasta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira indura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira liana Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira parva Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira satura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
  • Otira terricola Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Otira Forster & Wilton, 1973". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/103. Retrieved 2019-04-05. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.". Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1–309. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3357650 entry