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[update] it contains only three species, found only in New Zealand.[1]
Orongia | |
---|---|
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 | |
|
Species
edit- Orongia medialis Forster & Platnick, 1985
- Orongia motueka Forster & Platnick, 1985
- Orongia whangamoa Forster & Platnick, 1985
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Orongia Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ 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.