Viracucha
Viracucha is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
| Viracucha | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. andicola (Simon, 1906) | |
| Species | |
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6, see text | |
Species
As of April 2019 it contains six species:[1]
- Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) (type) – Bolivia
- Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
- Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
- Viracucha paraguayensis (Strand, 1909) – Brazil, Paraguay
- Viracucha ridleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil
- Viracucha silvicola (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil
References
- "Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.
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