Otira is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2]
| Otira | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Amaurobiidae |
| Genus: | Otira Forster & Wilton, 1973[1] |
| Type species | |
| O. satura Forster & Wilton, 1973 | |
| Species | |
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Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains six species:[1]
- Otira canasta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Otira indura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Otira liana Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Otira parva Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Otira satura Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
- Otira terricola Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Otira Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.