Nihoa is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Tracey Churchill and Robert Raven in 1992. It is named after the island Nëhoa, where the type species (N. mahina) is endemic.
Male N. hawaiiensis grow to almost long, including chelicerae. The females are larger, growing up to .
Species
it contains twenty-three species:
- Nihoa annulata <small>(KulczyÃ
Âski, 1908)</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa annulipes <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa aussereri <small>(L. Koch, 1874)</small> â Palau Is.
- Nihoa bisianumu <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa courti <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa crassipes <small>(Rainbow, 1898)</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa gressitti <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa gruberi <small>Raven, 1994</small> â Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
- Nihoa hawaiiensis <small>(Raven, 1988)</small> â Hawaii
- Nihoa itakara <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa kaindi <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa karawari <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa lambleyi <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa madang <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa mahina <small>Churchill & Raven, 1992</small> (type) â Hawaii
- Nihoa maior <small>(KulczyÃ
Âski, 1908)</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa mambulu <small>Raven, 1994</small> â Solomon Is.
- Nihoa pictipes <small>(Pocock, 1899)</small> â New Guinea, Papua New Guinea (New Britain, New Ireland), Solomon Is.
- Nihoa raleighi <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa tatei <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa vanuatu <small>Raven, 1994</small> â Vanuatu
- Nihoa variata <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> â New Guinea
- Nihoa verireti <small>Raven, 1994</small> â New Guinea
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