''Mahura'' is a

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funnel weavers first described by

Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...

& C. L. Wilton in 1973 and known only from New Zealand. They are fairly common, though small spiders, ranging from long.

Species

it contains eighteen species: *'' Mahura accola'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura bainhamensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura boara'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura crypta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura detrita'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura hinua'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura musca'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura rubella'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura rufula'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura scuta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura sorenseni'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura southgatei'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura spinosa'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura spinosoides'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura takahea'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura tarsa'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura turris'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand *'' Mahura vella'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand

References

Agelenidae Endemic spiders of New Zealand Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Agelenidae-stub