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
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