Biology:Micrepeira

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Micrepeira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Micrepeira
Schenkel, 1953[1]
Type species
M. albomaculata
Schenkel, 1953
Species

7, see text

Micrepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by E. Schenkel in 1953.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains seven species:[1]

  • Micrepeira albomaculata Schenkel, 1953 – Venezuela
  • Micrepeira fowleri Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
  • Micrepeira hoeferi Levi, 1995 – Peru, Brazil, French Guiana
  • Micrepeira pachitea Levi, 1995 – Peru
  • Micrepeira smithae Levi, 1995 – Suriname
  • Micrepeira tubulofaciens (Hingston, 1932) – Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana
  • Micrepeira velso Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Micrepeira Schenkel, 1953". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/357. Retrieved 2019-05-14. 
  2. Schenkel, E. (1953). "Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela.". Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1–57. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3020296 entry