Nicolepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 2001.[2] As of April 2019[update] it contains only three species, all found in Chile.[1]
Nicolepeira | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Nicolepeira Levi, 2001[1] |
Type species | |
N. flavifrons (Nicolet, 1849)
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Species | |
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References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Nicolepeira Levi, 2001". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (2001). "The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 155: 445–475.