Aorangia

Aorangia
Aorangia sp. (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Stiphidiidae
Genus:	Aorangia Forster & Wilton, 1973 [1]
Type species
A. ansa Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species
16, see text

Aorangia is a genus of sheetweb spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains sixteen species, all found in New Zealand: ^[1]

• Aorangia agama Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia ansa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia fiordensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia isolata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia kapitiensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia mauii Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia muscicola Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia obscura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia otira Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia pilgrimi Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia poppelwelli Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia pudica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia semita Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia silvestris Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia singularis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Aorangia tumida Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Aorangia Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.