Paraplectana

Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.[2]

Paraplectana
Female Paraplectana tsushimensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Paraplectana
Brito Capello, 1867[1]
Type species
P. thorntoni
(Blackwall, 1865)
Species

13, see text

Species

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

  • Paraplectana coccinella (Thorell, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.)
  • Paraplectana duodecimmaculata Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
  • Paraplectana gravelyi (Tikader, 1961) – India
  • Paraplectana hemisphaerica (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone
  • Paraplectana kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
  • Paraplectana multimaculata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa
  • Paraplectana rajashree Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
  • Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan
  • Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen
    • Paraplectana t. occidentalis Strand, 1916 – West, Central Africa
  • Paraplectana tsushimensis Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan
  • Paraplectana walleri (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar
    • Paraplectana w. ashantensis Strand, 1907 – Ghana

References
  1. "Gen. Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Brito Capello, F. de (1867). "Descripçao de algunas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de Crustaceo e Arachnidios de Portugal e possessoes portuguezas do Ultramar". Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. 4 (N.S.) 4(1): 1–17.


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