Amazonepeira

Amazonepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1989.[2]

Amazonepeira
Scientific classification
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
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 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
  1. "Gen. Amazonepeira Levi, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  2. Levi, H. W. (1989). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche, Cambridge. 96 (1–2): 75–99. doi:10.1155/1989/65890.


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