Viracucha

Viracucha is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Viracucha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Viracucha
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
V. andicola
(Simon, 1906)
Species

6, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains six species:[1]

  • Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) (type) – Bolivia
  • Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
  • Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
  • Viracucha paraguayensis (Strand, 1909) – Brazil, Paraguay
  • Viracucha ridleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil
  • Viracucha silvicola (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.


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