Metazygia

Metazygia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904.[2] They physically resemble members of Nuctenea, but they do not have fine setae on the carapace.[3][4]

Metazygia
Metazygia zilloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Metazygia
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904[1]
Type species
M. wittfeldae
(McCook, 1894)
Species

90, see text

Species

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

  • M. adisi Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. aldela Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. amalla Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. arnoi Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. atalaya Levi, 1995 – Peru
  • M. atama Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. bahama Levi, 1995 – Bahama Is.
  • M. bahia Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. barueri Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. benella Levi, 1995 – Panama, Colombia
  • M. bolivia Levi, 1995 – Bolivia
  • M. calix (Walckenaer, 1841) – USA
  • M. carimagua Levi, 1995 – Colombia
  • M. carolinalis (Archer, 1951) – USA
  • M. carrizal Levi, 1995 – Guatemala
  • M. castaneoscutata (Simon, 1895) – Peru, Brazil
  • M. cazeaca Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. chenevo Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Guyana
  • M. chicanna Levi, 1995 – Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica
  • M. cienaga Levi, 1995 – Hispaniola
  • M. corima Levi, 1995 – Colombia
  • M. corumba Levi, 1995 – Bolivia, Brazil
  • M. crabroniphila Strand, 1916 – Brazil
  • M. crewi (Banks, 1903) – Greater Antilles, Virgin Is.
  • M. cunha Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. curari Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. dubia (Keyserling, 1864) – Costa Rica, Cuba to Galapagos Is., Peru, Brazil
  • M. ducke Levi, 1995 – Brazil, Bolivia
  • M. enabla Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • M. erratica (Keyserling, 1883) – Brazil
  • M. floresta Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. genaro Levi, 1995 – Peru
  • M. genialis (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Dominican Republic (Hispaniola)
  • M. goeldii Levi, 1995 – French Guiana, Brazil
  • M. gregalis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Nicaragua, Caribbean to Argentina
  • M. ikuruwa Levi, 1995 – Guyana
  • M. incerta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Belize to Panama
  • M. ipago Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. ipanga Levi, 1995 – Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina
  • M. isabelae Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. ituari Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. jamari Levi, 1995 – Brazil, Suriname
  • M. keyserlingi Banks, 1929 – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Trinidad
  • M. lagiana Levi, 1995 – Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina
  • M. laticeps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Guatemala to Bolivia, Brazil
  • M. lazepa Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Venezuela
  • M. levii Santos, 2003 – Brazil
  • M. limonal Levi, 1995 – Peru, Brazil, Argentina
  • M. lopez Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
  • M. loque Levi, 1995 – Bolivia
  • M. manu Levi, 1995 – Peru, French Guiana
  • M. mariahelenae Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. matanzas Levi, 1995 – Cuba
  • M. moldira Levi, 1995 – Ecuador, Peru
  • M. mundulella (Strand, 1916) – Brazil
  • M. nigrocincta (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904) – Mexico to Panama
  • M. nobas Levi, 1995 – Ecuador
  • M. octama Levi, 1995 – Panama to Peru
  • M. oro Levi, 1995 – Ecuador
  • M. pallidula (Keyserling, 1864) – Mexico to Peru
  • M. paquisha Levi, 1995 – Venezuela, Peru
  • M. pastaza Levi, 1995 – Peru
  • M. patiama Levi, 1995 – Peru, Brazil
  • M. peckorum Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
  • M. pimentel Levi, 1995 – Venezuela, Peru
  • M. redfordi Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. rogenhoferi (Keyserling, 1878) – Brazil
  • M. rothi Levi, 1995 – Colombia
  • M. samiria Levi, 1995 – Peru
  • M. saturnino Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. sendero Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  • M. serian Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
  • M. silvestris (Bryant, 1942) – Puerto Rico
  • M. souza Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. taman Levi, 1995 – Mexico
  • M. tanica Levi, 1995 – Guyana, French Guiana
  • M. tapa Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Peru, French Guiana
  • M. uma Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
  • M. uraricoera Levi, 1995 – Brazil, Guyana, Suriname
  • M. uratron Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. valentim Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. vaupes Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
  • M. vaurieorum Levi, 1995 – Guatemala
  • M. viriosa (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil
  • M. voluptifica (Keyserling, 1892) – Colombia to Argentina
  • M. voxanta Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • M. wittfeldae (McCook, 1894) – USA to Costa Rica
  • M. yobena Levi, 1995 – Colombia to Guyana, Bolivia
  • M. yucumo Levi, 1995 – Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana
  • M. zilloides (Banks, 1898) – USA, Caribbean to Honduras

References

  1. "Gen. Metazygia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
  3. Levi, Herbert W. (1977). "The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia, and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. 148 (3): 61–127 [90].
  4. "Genus Metazygia". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
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