Tangata (spider)

Tangata 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]

Tangata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Type species
T. nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species
17, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

• Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
• Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

References

1. "Gen. Tangata 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.