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Aculepeira

Aculepeira
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A. ceropegia
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A. armida
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Aculepeira
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942[1]
Type species
A. packardi
(Thorell, 1875)
Species

27, see text

Aculepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twenty-seven species:[1]

  • Aculepeira aculifera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Guatemala
  • Aculepeira albovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Paraguay, Argentina
  • Aculepeira angeloi Álvares, Loyola & De Maria, 2005 – Brazil
  • Aculepeira apa Levi, 1991 – Paraguay
  • Aculepeira armida (Audouin, 1826) – Southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia to China
    • Aculepeira a. orientalis (Kulczyński, 1901) – Russia (Asia), China
    • Aculepeira a. pumila (Simon, 1929) – France
  • Aculepeira azul Levi, 1991 – Panama
  • Aculepeira busu Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
  • Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) – Alps, southern Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe and Central Asia), Kazakhstan, China
    • Aculepeira c. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) – China
  • Aculepeira carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892) – USA, Canada, Russia (Europe to Far East)
  • Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran?
  • Aculepeira escazu Levi, 1991 – Costa Rica
  • Aculepeira gravabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Honduras to Panama
  • Aculepeira lapponica (Holm, 1945) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (West Siberia)
  • Aculepeira luosangensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
  • Aculepeira machu Levi, 1991 – Peru
  • Aculepeira matsudae Tanikawa, 1994 – Japan
  • Aculepeira morenoae Rubio, Izquierdo & Piacentini, 2013 – Argentina[3]
  • Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875) – North America, Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
  • Aculepeira serpentina Guo & Zhang, 2010 – China
  • Aculepeira taibaishanensis Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
  • Aculepeira talishia (Zawadsky, 1902) – Turkey, Iran, Caucasus to Central Asia
  • Aculepeira travassosi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Mexico to Argentina
  • Aculepeira visite Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
  • Aculepeira vittata (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. ^ Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
  3. ^ Rubio, Gonzalo D.; Izquierdo, Matias A.; Piacentini, Luis N. (2013). "A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 548–556. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2.


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