Lewisepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1993.[2]
Lewisepeira | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Genus: | Lewisepeira Levi, 1993[1] |
Type species | |
L. farri (Archer, 1958)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains four species from the Americas and the Caribbean:[1]
- Lewisepeira boquete Levi, 1993 – Panama
- Lewisepeira chichinautzin Levi, 1993 – Mexico
- Lewisepeira farri (Archer, 1958) – Jamaica
- Lewisepeira maricao Levi, 1993 – Puerto Rico
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Lewisepeira Levi, 1993". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (1993). "The new orb-weaver genus Lewisepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 100 (3–4): 127–136. doi:10.1155/1993/97657.