Makora

For the New Zealand ferry, see Makora (ferry).

Makora is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.^[2]

Makora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Desidae
Genus:	Makora Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
M. figurata Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species
5, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species, all found in New Zealand:^[1]

• Makora calypso (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
• Makora detrita Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Makora diversa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Makora figurata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Makora mimica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand