Kaiya

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Kaiya is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster, Norman I. Platnick & Michael R. Gray in 1987.^[2]

Kaiya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gradungulidae
Genus:	Kaiya Gray, 1987[1]
Type species
K. terama Gray, 1987
Species
4, see text

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

• Kaiya bemboka Gray, 1987 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Kaiya brindabella (Moran, 1985) – Australian Capital Territory
• Kaiya parnabyi Gray, 1987 – Australia (Victoria)
• Kaiya terama Gray, 1987 (type) – Australia (New South Wales)