Biology:Mecynogea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Mecynogea
Basilica Orbweaver - Mecynogea lemniscata, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
M. lemniscata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Mecynogea
Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
M. bigibba
Simon, 1903
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Allepeira Banks, 1932[2]

Mecynogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[3] The name is derived from the Greek mekyno (μηυνω), meaning "to lengthen", and "gea" (γεα), meaning "earth".[4]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains nine species in the Americas:[1]

  • Mecynogea apatzingan Levi, 1997 – Mexico
  • Mecynogea bigibba Simon, 1903 – Brazil, Uruguay
  • Mecynogea buique Levi, 1997 – Brazil
  • Mecynogea erythromela (Holmberg, 1876) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile
  • Mecynogea infelix (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Colombia, Brazil
  • Mecynogea lemniscata (Walckenaer, 1841) – USA to Argentina
  • Mecynogea martiana (Archer, 1958) – Cuba, Hispaniola
  • Mecynogea ocosingo Levi, 1997 – Mexico
  • Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997 – Venezuela, Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Mecynogea Simon, 1903". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/351. Retrieved 2019-05-13. 
  2. Levi, H. W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157: 309–382. 
  3. Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 47: 21–39. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25299. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/25299. 
  4. "Genus Mecynogea". BugGuide. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1986. Retrieved 2019-05-13. 

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