Hulua is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Toxopidae |
| Genus: | Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973[1] |
| Type species | |
| H. convoluta Forster & Wilton, 1973
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Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains four species, all found in New Zealand:[1]
- Hulua convoluta Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type) – New Zealand
- Hulua manga Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
- Hulua minima Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
- Hulua pana Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.
- ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.