Also known as New Zealand trapdoor spiders
Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902. From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.
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Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902. From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.
==Species== the genus contained forty-three species, mainly from New Zealand (NZ), with one from the Australian state of Tasmania (TAS): Cantuaria abdita Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria allani Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria aperta Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria apica Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria assimilis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria borealis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria catlinsensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria cognata Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria collensis (Todd, 1945) – NZ Cantuaria delli Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria dendyi (Hogg, 1901) (type) – NZ Cantuaria depressa Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria dunedinensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria gilliesi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1878) – NZ Cantuaria grandis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria huttoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) – NZ Cantuaria insulana Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria isolata Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria johnsi Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria kakahuensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria kakanuiensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria lomasi Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria magna Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria marplesi (Todd, 1945) – NZ Cantuaria maxima Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria medialis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria mestoni (Hickman, 1928) – TAS Cantuaria minor Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria myersi Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria napua Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria orepukiensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria parrotti Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria pilama Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria prina Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria reducta Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria secunda Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria sinclairi Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria stephenensis Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria stewarti (Todd, 1945) – NZ Cantuaria sylvatica Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria toddae Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria vellosa Forster, 1968 – NZ Cantuaria wanganuiensis (Todd, 1945) – NZ
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