Kapogea
Appearance
Kapogea | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Kapogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1997.[2]
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains four species in the Americas, from Mexico to Brazil:[1]
- Kapogea cyrtophoroides (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904) – Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Kapogea isosceles (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Greater Antilles, Panama to Argentina
- Kapogea sellata (Simon, 1895) – Greater Antilles, Costa Rica to Argentina
- Kapogea sexnotata (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Kapogea Levi, 1997". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ 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.