Mamoea bicolor is a species of Desidae that is endemic to New Zealand.Forster, R. R. & Wilton, C. L. (1973). The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1-309.
Taxonomy This species was described as Rubrius bicolor by Elizabeth Bryant in 1935 from a female specimen.Bryant, E. B. (1935). Some new and little known species of New Zealand spiders. Records of the Canterbury Museum 4: 71-94, pl. 10-13. It was revised in 1973. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum.
Description The female is recorded at 7.99mm in length. The carapace is coloured orange brown. The legs are orange brown. The abdomen has pale markings dorsally and dark markings ventrally.
Distribution This species is only known from Southland and Fiordland, New Zealand.
Conservation status Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".
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