Biology:Viracucha
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. andicola (Simon, 1906)
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Viracucha is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
Species
(As of April 2021), Viracucha contained seven species:[1]
- Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) – Bolivia
- Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
- Viracucha mammifer (Mello-Leitão, 1939)[3] – Brazil
- Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
- Viracucha paraguayensis (Strand, 1909) – Brazil, Paraguay
- Viracucha ridleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil
- Viracucha silvicola (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/644. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ↑ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.". Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199–468.
- ↑ Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." Zootaxa 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.
Wikidata ☰ Q3560557 entry
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