Verrucosa
Verrucosa | |
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V. arenata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Verrucosa McCook, 1888 |
Type species | |
V. arenata (Walckenaer, 1841)
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Species | |
45, see text |
Verrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Henry McCook in 1888.[1] It contains almost fifty described species, most of which live in South America. The only species in the United States is the arrowhead spider.[2]
Species[]
As of April 2019 it contains forty-five species:[3]
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador
- Verrucosa arenata (Walckenaer, 1841) (type) – USA to Panama, Greater Antilles
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Costa Rica
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Bolivia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Bolivia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- (Badcock, 1932) – Brazil, Paraguay
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana, Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela
- (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
- Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Trinidad
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
- Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Argentina
- (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina
Verrucosa furcifera (Keyserling, 1886) from Queensland, Australia was placed in this genus due to its strong outer similarity. However, it is considered misplaced,[4] and is now .
References[]
- ^ McCook, H. C. (1888). "Necessity for revising the nomenclature of American spiders". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1888: 74–79.
- ^ "Genus Verrucosa". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Verrucosa McCook, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Lise, Arno A.; Kesster, Cynara C.; Da Silva, Estevam L. Cruz (2015). "Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3921 (1): 1–105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3921.1.1. PMID 25781566.
External links[]
"Verrucosa" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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Categories:
- Araneidae
- Araneomorphae genera
- Spiders of North America
- Spiders of South America