Otira (spider)
Otira is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. The genus is endemic to New Zealand.
A 2011 review of the genus removed three Australian species, and placed them within a new genus, Oztira. This new genus name is a portmanteau formed by combining the genus Otira with Oz, a nickname for Australia.
Species
it contains six species:- 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