Kapogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1997.[2]

Kapogea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Kapogea
Levi, 1997[1]
Type species
K. sellata
(Simon, 1895)
Species

4, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains four species in the Americas, from Mexico to Brazil:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Kapogea Levi, 1997". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. ^ Levi, H. W. (1997). "The American orb weavers of the genera Mecynogea, Manogea, Kapogea and Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 155: 215–255.
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