Yoroa

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Yoroa

| authority = Baert, 1984

| type_species = Y. clypeoglandularis

| type_species_authority = Baert, 1984

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| Y. clypeoglandularis|Baert, 1984 – New Guinea

| Y. taylori|Harvey & Waldock, 2000 – Australia (Queensland)}}

}}

Yoroa is a genus of South Pacific comb-footed spiders that was first described by L. Baert in 1984.{{cite journal| last=Baert| first=L.| year=1984| title=Spiders (Araneae) from Papua New Guinea. IV. Ochyroceratidae, Telemidae, Hadrotarsidae and Mysmenidae| journal=Indo-Malayan Zoology| pages=225–244| volume=2}} {{as of|2020|06}} it contains two species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Y. clypeoglandularis and Y. taylori.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Yoroa Baert, 1984| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2020-07-16| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3559| doi=10.24436/2}}

The authors when describing a second species from northern Queensland – Yoroa taylori – also revised the descriptions of the genus and New Guinea species with specimens of the previously unknown females.{{cite journal |last1=Harvey |first1=Mark S. |last2=Waldock |first2=Julianne M. |title=Review of the spider genus Yoroa Baert (Araneae: Theridiidae: Hadrotarsinae): Spider genus Yoroa |journal=Australian Journal of Entomology |date=7 July 2008 |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=58–61 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-6055.2000.00150.x}}