Biology:Dubiepeira

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Dubiepeira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Dubiepeira
Levi, 1991[1]
Type species
D. dubitata
(Soares & Camargo, 1948)
Species

5, see text

Dubiepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1991.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains five species:[1]

  • Dubiepeira amablemaria Levi, 1991 – Peru
  • Dubiepeira amacayacu Levi, 1991 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
  • Dubiepeira dubitata (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Venezuela to Brazil
  • Dubiepeira lamolina Levi, 1991 – Ecuador, Peru
  • Dubiepeira neptunina (Mello-Leitão, 1948) – Colombia, Peru, Guyana, French Guiana

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Dubiepeira Levi, 1991". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/310. Retrieved 2019-05-13. 
  2. Levi, H. W. (1991). "The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae).". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 167–315. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3009428 entry