title: Muritaia
text: # Muritaia
  
  Muritaia is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in New Zealand:
  
  * Muritaia kaituna Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  * Muritaia longispinata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  * Muritaia orientalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  * Muritaia parabusa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  * Muritaia suba Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  