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Spinepeira Levi 1995

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad INABIO, Quito, Ecuador. & Fundación Uru, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2. Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology, Leibniz-Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Center for Taxonomy and Morphology, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.

Description

Genus Spinepeira Levi, 1995

Type species. Spinepeira schlingeri Levi, 1995

Diagnosis. Females Spinepeira species can be distinguished from other Araneidae genera by the combination of the following characteristics: posterior eye row procuved; carapace without modifications; one anterior median tubercle, a pair of dorsal projections, two posterior median tubercles (Levi 1995: figs 16, 17) and short scape 2x wider than long (Fig. 2D, E).

Distribution. Ecuador and Peru.

Composition. Spinepeira erwini sp. nov., S. schlingeri Levi, 1995.

Notes

Published as part of Díaz-Guevara, David R. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2025, A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953, pp. 587-595 in Zootaxa 5660 (4) on page 588, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/16603722

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.16603726 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/16603722 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0819FFB7D766FFE9B048FF82FFE7FF8E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/6CA43A8D-F6FE-49D3-803D-5FFA07FDB70A (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/268081735 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/311567/taxon/F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Levi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Araneidae
Genus
Spinepeira
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Spinepeira Levi, 1995 sec. Díaz-Guevara & Dupérré, 2025

References

  • Levi, H. W. (1995) Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 154, 153-213.