Aorangia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Aorangia |
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| Aorangia sp. (male) | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Stiphidiidae |
| Genus: | Aorangia Forster & Wilton, 1973 |
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| A. ansa Forster & Wilton, 1973
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Aorangia is a genus of South Pacific sheetweb spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species, all found in New Zealand:
- 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
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