Mahura

Short description: Genus of spiders

Mahura

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Agelenidae
Genus:  | Mahura
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
M. turris Forster & Wilton, 1973

Species

18, see text

Mahura is a genus of South Pacific funnel weavers first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973 and known only from New Zealand. They are fairly common, though small spiders, ranging from 1.5 to 3.5 millimetres (0.059 to 0.138 in) long.[2]

## Species

As of April 2019[update] it contains eighteen species:[1]

* Mahura accola Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura bainhamensis Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura boara Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura crypta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura detrita Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura hinua Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura musca Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura rubella Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura rufula Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura scuta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura sorenseni Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura southgatei Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura spinosa Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura spinosoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura takahea Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura tarsa Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura turris Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
* Mahura vella Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Mahura Forster & Wilton, 1973". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/38. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
2. ↑ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.". Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1–309.

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