Tangata (spider)
# Tangata (spider)

Tangata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.

## Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:

* Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
* Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
