Mangua

Mangua is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 2017.[3]

Mangua
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Physoglenidae
Genus:	Mangua Forster, 1990[1]
Type species
M. gunni Forster, 1990
Species
14, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains fourteen species, found on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

• Mangua caswell Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua convoluta Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua flora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua forsteri (Brignoli, 1983) – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
• Mangua gunni Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
• Mangua hughsoni Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua kapiti Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua makarora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua medialis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua oparara Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua otira Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua paringa Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua sana Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Mangua secunda Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

See also

• List of Physoglenidae species

References

1. "Gen. Mangua Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
3. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.