Maorineta tibialis

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Maorineta tibialis is a small sheet-weaver spider found only in New Zealand. It was described in 1988 by Alfred Frank Millidge from both female and male specimens and is the type species of the Maorineta genus. The holotype is kept at Otago Museum. Females are about 1.8–2.1 mm long, males about 1.65–1.70 mm. It has a brown carapace with a dark area around the fovea, yellow-brown to orange legs, and a grey to black abdomen with a white patch on the back. This species is known only from the South Island of New Zealand. Its conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System is Not Threatened.

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Maorineta
Species: M. tibialis