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
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