Popperaneus is a small genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Cabra-García and Gustavo Hormiga in 2020.[2] As of November 2021[update] it contains only two species, both transferred from Wagneria: P. gavensis and P. iguape.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Popperaneus Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Wixia gavensis (Camargo, 1950)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Popperaneus Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ^ Cabra-García, J.; Hormiga, G. (2020). "Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (4): 976–1151. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088.
Further reading
edit- Levi, H. W. (1991). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Edricus and Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 152: 363–415.
- Camargo, H. F. de A. (1950). "Contribuição ao estudo das aranhas brasileiras (Arachnida-Araneae): Três espécies novas e uma pouco conhecida" [Contribution to the study of Brazilian spiders (Arachnida-Araneae): Three new species and one little known]. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, Sao Paolo (in Portuguese). 9: 223–248.
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