Biology:Testudinaria

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Testudinaria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Testudinaria
Taczanowski, 1879[1]
Type species
T. geometrica
Taczanowski, 1879
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Nanduti Mello-Leitão, 1945

Testudinaria is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1879.[2]

Species

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

  • Testudinaria bonaldoi Levi, 2005 – Brazil
  • Testudinaria debsmithae Levi, 2005 – Suriname to Peru, Bolivia
  • Testudinaria elegans Taczanowski, 1879 – Panama to Peru
  • Testudinaria geometrica Taczanowski, 1879 (type) – Panama to Peru, Brazil
  • Testudinaria gravatai Levi, 2005 – Brazil
  • Testudinaria lemniscata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
  • Testudinaria quadripunctata Taczanowski, 1879 – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  • Testudinaria rosea (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
  • Testudinaria unipunctata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Testudinaria Taczanowski, 1879. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/412. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. Taczanowski, L. (1879). "Les aranéides du Pérou central (suite).". Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 15: 102–136. 

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