Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.[2]
| Paraplectana | |
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| Female Paraplectana tsushimensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
| Genus: | Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865)
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13, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains thirteen species:[1]
- Paraplectana coccinella (Simon, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.)
- Paraplectana duodecimmaculata Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
- Paraplectana gravelyi (Tikader, 1961) – India
- Paraplectana hemisphaerica (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone
- Paraplectana kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
- Paraplectana multimaculata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa
- Paraplectana rajashree Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
- Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan
- Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen
- Paraplectana t. occidentalis Strand, 1916 – West, Central Africa
- Paraplectana tsushimensis Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan
- Paraplectana walleri (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar
- Paraplectana w. ashantensis Strand, 1907 – Ghana
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Brito Capello, F. de (1867). "Descripçao de algunas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de Crustaceo e Arachnidios de Portugal e possessoes portuguezas do Ultramar". Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. New Series. 4 (1): 1–17.
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