Biology:Nicolepeira

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Nicolepeira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Nicolepeira
Levi, 2001[1]
Type species
N. flavifrons
(Nicolet, 1849)
Species
  • (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • N. flavifrons N. bicaudata
  • (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile N. transversalis

Nicolepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 2001.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only three species, all found in Chile .[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Nicolepeira Levi, 2001". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/366. Retrieved 2019-05-14. 
  2. Levi, H. W. (2001). "The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae).". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155: 445–475. 

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