Auhunga
Sign in to saveAuhunga is a genus of tangled nest spiders containing the single species, Auhunga pectinata. It is endemic to New Zealand.
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It is catalogued under topics including Amaurobiidae, Endemic spiders of New Zealand and Monotypic Amaurobiidae genera.
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Auhunga is a genus of tangled nest spiders containing the single species, Auhunga pectinata. It is endemic to New Zealand.
==Taxonomy== This species was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton from male and female specimens. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum.
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