Hingstepeira

Hingstepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1995.[2]

Hingstepeira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Hingstepeira
Levi, 1995[1]
Type species
H. folisecens
(Hingston, 1932)
Species

4, see text

Species

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

  • Hingstepeira arnolisei Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • Hingstepeira dimona Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • Hingstepeira folisecens (Hingston, 1932) – Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
  • Hingstepeira isherton Levi, 1995 – Guyana

References

  1. "Gen. Hingstepeira Levi, 1995". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 153–213.


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