Orongia

Orongia is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only on the Polynesian Islands: O. medialis, O. motueka, and O. whangamoa.[1]

Orongia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Orongia
Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Type species
O. medialis
Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species
  • O. medialis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • O. motueka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
  • O. whangamoa Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Orongia Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.


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