{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Yoroa | authority = Baert, 1984<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''Y. clypeoglandularis'' | type_species_authority = Baert, 1984 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | Y. clypeoglandularis|<small>Baert, 1984</small> – New Guinea | Y. taylori|<small>Harvey & Waldock, 2000</small> – Australia (Queensland)}} }} '''''Yoroa''''' is a genus of South Pacific comb-footed spiders that was first described by L. Baert in 1984.<ref name=Baer1984>{{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}}</ref> {{as of|2020|06}} it contains two species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea: ''Y. clypeoglandularis'' and ''Y. taylori''.<ref name=NMBE>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Harvey2008">{{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}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last1=Harvey| first1=M. S.| last2=Waldock| first2=J. M.| year=2000| title=Review of the spider genus ''Yoroa'' Baert (Araneae: Theridiidae: Hadrotarsinae)| journal=Australian Journal of Entomology| pages=58–61| volume=39| issue=2| doi=10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00150.x}}
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Theridiidae
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