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