Amazonepeira
| Amazonepeira | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Levi, 1989[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. herrera Levi, 1989 | |
| Species | |
| 5, see text | |
Amazonepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1989.[2]
Species
As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]
- Amazonepeira beno Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname
- Amazonepeira callaria (Levi, 1991) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Amazonepeira herrera Levi, 1989 – Peru, Brazil
- Amazonepeira manaus Levi, 1994 – Brazil
- Amazonepeira masaka Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil.
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Amazonepeira Levi, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (1989). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 96 (1–2): 75–99. doi:10.1155/1989/65890.