''Aorangia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of sheetweb spiders 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.

Species

it contains sixteen species, all found in

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: *'' Aorangia agama'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia ansa'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia fiordensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia isolata'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia kapitiensis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia mauii'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia muscicola'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia obscura'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia otira'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia pilgrimi'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia poppelwelli'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia pudica'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia semita'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia silvestris'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia singularis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Aorangia tumida'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

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