Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.[3] From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.[4][5]

Cantuaria
Cantuaria dendyi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Cantuaria
Hogg, 1902[1]
Type species
C. dendyi
(Hogg, 1901)
Species

43, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Korua Todd, 1945[2]

Species

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As of May 2019 the genus contained forty-three species, mainly from New Zealand (NZ), with one from the Australian state of Tasmania (TAS):[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Cantuaria Hogg, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ Forster, R. R. (1968). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part II. Ctenizidae, Dipluridae". Otago Museum Bulletin. 2: 15.
  3. ^ Hogg, H. R. (1902). "On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 72 (II, 1): 121–142.
  4. ^ Raven, R. J.; Wishart, G. (2006). "The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 545. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-09.
  5. ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 148.