Lipocrea

Lipocrea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]

Lipocrea
L. fusiformis, female from Okinawa.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Lipocrea
Thorell, 1878[1]
Type species
L. fusiformis (Thorell, 1877)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Indonesia
  • Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
  • Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) — India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
  • Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) — Central, East, Southern Africa

References

  1. "Gen. Lipocrea Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  2. Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.


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