Waipoua 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 eight species, found only in New Zealand: Waipoua gressitti (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) Waipoua hila Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Waipoua insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Waipoua montana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Waipoua otiana Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Waipoua ponanga Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Waipoua toronui Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand Waipoua totara (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
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