Nicolepeira
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| Nicolepeira | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Nicolepeira Levi, 2001[1] |
| Type species | |
| N. flavifrons (Nicolet, 1849) | |
| Species | |
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Nicolepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 2001.[2] As of April 2019[update] it contains only three species, all found in Chile.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Nicolepeira Levi, 2001". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (2001). "The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 155: 445–475.
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