Cantuaria

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Cantuaria

| image = Cantuaria dendyi Hogg 1901.png

| image_caption = Cantuaria dendyi

| authority = Hogg, 1902

| type_species = C. dendyi

| type_species_authority = (Hogg, 1901)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 43, see text

| synonyms =

• Korua Todd, 1945{{cite journal| last=Forster| first=R. R.| year=1968| title=The spiders of New Zealand. Part II. Ctenizidae, Dipluridae.| journal=Otago Museum Bulletin| volume=2| page=15}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Hogg| first=H. R.| year=1902| title=On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae.| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=121–142| volume=72| issue=II, 1| author-link=Henry_Roughton_Hogg}} From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.{{cite journal| last1=Raven| first1=R. J.| last2=Wishart| first2=G.| year=2006| title=The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia| journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum| volume=51| page=545| author-link=Robert_Raven| url=http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/organisation/e_prints/mqm_51_2/51_2_Raven%26Wishart.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009151701/http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/organisation/e_prints/mqm_51_2/51_2_Raven%26Wishart.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2008-10-09}}{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| page=148| author-link=Robert_Raven}}