Amazonepeira

Amazonepeira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Amazonepeira Levi, 1989[1]
Type species
A. herrera Levi, 1989
Species
5, see text

Amazonepeira is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1989.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species:[1]

• Amazonepeira beno Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname
• Amazonepeira callaria (Levi, 1991) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
• Amazonepeira herrera Levi, 1989 – Peru, Brazil
• Amazonepeira manaus Levi, 1994 – Brazil
• Amazonepeira masaka Levi, 1994 – Ecuador, Brazil.

References

1. "Gen. Amazonepeira Levi, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
2. Levi, H. W. (1989). "The Neotropical orb-weaver genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 96 (1–2): 75–99. doi:10.1155/1989/65890.