Acanthepeira

Acanthepeira

Acanthepeira stellata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Acanthepeira Marx, 1883^[1]
Type species
A. stellata (Walckenaer, 1805)
Species
5, see text

Acanthepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by George Marx in 1883.^[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species:^[1]

Acanthepeira cherokee Levi, 1976 – USA
Acanthepeira labidura (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
Acanthepeira marion Levi, 1976 – USA, Mexico
Acanthepeira stellata (Walckenaer, 1805) – Canada to Mexico
Acanthepeira venusta (Banks, 1896) – USA, Cuba, Hispaniola

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Acanthepeira Marx, 1883". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
^ Marx, G. (1883). Araneina.

Taxon identifiers
Acanthepeira	Wikidata: Q2822502 Wikispecies: Acanthepeira ADW: Acanthepeira BioLib: 467481 BOLD: 205450 BugGuide: 1994 CoL: LZK EoL: 112748 EPPO: 1ATHPG GBIF: 2160772 iNaturalist: 51710 IRMNG: 1303197 ITIS: 847774 NCBI: 593436 Open Tree of Life: 126428 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01419

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