Rinawa

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

Rinawa
Scientific classification
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

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. "Gen. Rinawa Forster, 1970". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. 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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