Aotearoa magna

Aotearoa magna
Male Aotearoa magna

Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Mecysmaucheniidae
Genus: Aotearoa
Forster & Platnick, 1984
Species:
A. magna
Binomial name
Aotearoa magna
(Forster, 1949)
Synonyms

Zearchaea magna

Aotearoa magna is a species of spiders in the Mecysmaucheniidae family. It was first described in 1949 by Forster. As of 2017, it is the only species in the genus Aotearoa, erected by Forster and Platnick in 1984. It is found in New Zealand. (The Māori name of the island nation is Aotearoa.)