Pakeha is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Cycloctenidae, first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. The genus is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy This genus was initially placed in the family Amaurobiidae but was later transferred to Cycloctenidae.
Species it contains eighteen species: Pakeha buechlerae Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha duplex Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha hiloa Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha inornata Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha insignita Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha kirki (Hogg, 1909) — New Zealand (Snares Is.) Pakeha lobata Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha manapouri Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha maxima Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha media Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha minima Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha paratecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha parrotti Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha protecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha pula Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha stewartia Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha subtecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand Pakeha tecta Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand
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