Lipocrea
| Lipocrea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| L. fusiformis, female from Okinawa. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Thorell, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) | |
| Species | |
| 4, see text | |
Lipocrea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]
Species
As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]
- Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Indonesia
- Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
- Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) — India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) — Central, East, Southern Africa
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Lipocrea Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.