Amazonepeira
Appearance
Amazonepeira | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Amazonepeira Levi, 1989[1] |
Type species | |
A. herrera Levi, 1989
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Species | |
5, see text |
Amazonepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1989.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains five species:[1]
- Amazonepeira beno Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname
- Amazonepeira callaria (Levi, 1991) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Amazonepeira herrera Levi, 1989 – Peru, Brazil
- Amazonepeira manaus Levi, 1994 – Brazil
- Amazonepeira masaka Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Amazonepeira Levi, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (1989). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 96 (1–2): 75–99. doi:10.1155/1989/65890.