''Novaranea'' is a

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orb-weaver spiders first described by D. J. Court and

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 ...

in 1988. , it contains only two species.

References

Araneidae Araneidae genera Spiders of Australia Spiders of New Zealand Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Araneidae-stub