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]

Mahura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

Species edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Mahura Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 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.