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- 4: Friends of Te Henui
- 4.1: Friends of Te Henui
- 4.2: About NZ National walkway "Te Henui"
- 4.3: Map of the walkway (Printable)
- 4.4: Videos of the walks in the Te Henui Valley
- 4.5: Aerial photograph showing tree positions, tracks and entrances.
- 4.6: Native Trees & Shrubs (Taranaki)
- 4.7: Native Trees & Shrubs not in Taranaki
- 4.8: Hebes and their cultivars and hybrids
- 4.9: Native Plants (Taranaki)
- 4.10: Native Plants not in Taranaki
- 4.11: Exotic Trees & Shrubs (Local)
- 4.12: Exotic Plants (Local)
- 4.13: Orchids (Local & NZ)
- 4.14: Ferns (NZ)
- 4.15: Weeds & Escapee Plants (Local & NZ)
- 4.16: Mushrooms,Fungi & Moulds (Local & NZ)
- 4.17: Lichens (Local & NZ)
- 4.18: Club Mosses (Local & NZ)
- 4.19: Mosses (Local & NZ)
- 4.20: Liverworts (Local & NZ)
- 4.21: Maori names of Native Trees
- 4.22: Traditional plant use by Maori
- 4.23: Birds (Local)
- 4.24: Butterflies and Moths (Local)
- 4.25: Fauna (Local and NZ)
- 4.26: Flies, Bees, Wasps (Local & NZ)
- 4.27: Botanical Terms Explained
- 4.28: Insects (Local and NZ)
- 4.29: Snails,Slugs,Worms (Local)
- 4.30: Spiders & Relations (Local)
- 4.30.1: False Scorpion (Pseudoscorpions)
- 4.30.2: Harvestmen (Megalopsalis)
- 4.30.3: Harvestman (Nuncia)
- 4.30.4: Harvestmen (Phalangium opilio)
- 4.30.5: Harvestman (Soerensenella prehensor)
- 4.30.6: Mite (Gorse)(Tetranychus lintearius)
- 4.30.7: Mite (Lacebark Gall)(Eriophyes hoheriae)
- 4.30.8: Mite (Red)(Tetranychidae Genera)
- 4.30.9: Crab Spiders Information)
- 4.30.10: Crab spider (Species 1) Sidymella spp
- 4.30.11: Crab spider (Species 2) Sidymella spp
- 4.30.12: Crab spider (Species 3) Sidymella angularis
- 4.30.13: Crab spider (Species 4) Diaea spp
- 4.30.14: Crab spider (Species 5) Diaea spp
- 4.30.15: Photos of various Orbweb species
- 4.30.16: Jumping Spider (Black Headed)(Trite planiceps)
- 4.30.17: Jumping (Bronze Aussie)(Helpis minitabunda
- 4.30.18: Jumping spider (Crevice)(Holoplatys spp)
- 4.30.19: Jumping spider (Euophrys Sp)
- 4.30.20: Jumping spider (Euophrys parvula)
- 4.30.21: Jumping spider (Hypoblemum spp.)
- 4.30.22: Jumping spider (Golden brown) (Trite auricoma)
- 4.30.23: Orbweb spider web photos
- 4.30.24: Orbweb spider (Black)(Family: Araneidae )
Current page is 4.30.25: Orbweb spider (Colaranea verutum)
- 4.30.26: Orbweb spider (Common Garden) Eriophora pustulosa
- 4.30.27: Orbweb spider (Cryptic) Family:Araneidae
- 4.30.28: Orbweb spider (Green) Colaranea viriditas
- 4.30.29: Orbweb spider (Horizontal)(Leucauge dromedaria)
- 4.30.30: Spider (Australian Grey House) Badumna longinqua
- 4.30.31: Spider (Banded Tunnelweb) Hexathele hochstetteri
- 4.30.32: Spider (Bird-dropping) Celaenia olivacea
- 4.30.33: Spider (Daddy Long Legs) Pholcus phalangioides
- 4.30.34: Spider (False Katipo) Steatoda capensis
- 4.30.35: Spider (Hopping) Clubiona spp
- 4.30.36: Spider (Notiodrassus spp) Family Gnaphosidae
- 4.30.37: Spider (Nursery) Dolomedes minor
- 4.30.38: Spider (NZ Cobweb) Cryptachaea veruculata
- 4.30.39: Spider (Scuttling) Genus:Cycloctenus
- 4.30.40: Spider (Sheet web) Cambridgea spp
- 4.30.41: Spider (Sombrero) Stiphidion facetum
- 4.30.42: Spider (Stretch) Tetragnatha spp.
- 4.30.43: Spider (Two Spined) Poecilopachys Australasia
- 4.30.44: Spider (White cobweb)Cobweb) Achaearanea tepidariorum
- 4.30.45: Spider (Whitetail) Lampona cylindrata
- 4.30.46: Spider (Wolfe) Genus:Lycosa
- 4.30.47: Spider (Wolf Garden) Lycosa hilaris
- 4.30.48: Spider (Vagrant) Uliodon spp
- 4.30.49: Spider (Viridictyna kikkawai)
- 4.30.50: Crab spider (Species 6) Sidymella spp
- 4.31: Local Historic Maori Sites
- 4.32: Historical Maori Walkway Tour, Te Ara Puāwai o Te Hēnui
- 4.33: Te Henui Vicarage (Historic Place)
- 4.34: Kete Te Henui
- 4.35: Forest and Bird Society Native Tree Planting
- 4.36: Forest and Bird Restoration Project
- 4.37: Working Bee Photos 8/3/10
- 4.38: Local Activities
- 4.39: Local Weed Removal
- 4.40: NPCC Planting etc.
- 4.41: Walkway Signs,etc.
- 4.42: The Friends Gallery
- 4.43: Environmental Monitoring Projects
- 4.44: New Plymouth & Taranaki Web Links
- 4.45: Contact Us
- 4.46: Admin Login
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- 3: Taranaki Kiwi Trust
4: Friends of Te Henui
- 5: Nga Motu Marine Reserve Society
- 6: Royal Forest and Bird Society, Taranaki
- 7: Rotokare Scenic Reserve
- 8: New Zealand Herpetological Society
Spider Orbweb (Colaranea verutum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida ( Spiders, scorpions, ticks )
Order: Araneae (Spiders)
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Colaranea
Species: Colaranea verutum ( verutum is Roman lance)
Colaranea verutum is a small (15mm) native orbweb spider. When disturbed it will drop to the ground and play dead with its legs pulled into its body..
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