Tatepeira

Tatepeira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Tatepeira Levi, 1995[1]
Type species
T. tatarendensis (Tullgren, 1905)
Species
4, see text

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

Species

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

• Tatepeira carrolli Levi, 1995 – Colombia
• Tatepeira itu Levi, 1995 – Brazil
• Tatepeira stadelmani Levi, 1995 – Honduras
• Tatepeira tatarendensis (Tullgren, 1905) (type) – Colombia to Bolivia

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Tatepeira Levi, 1995". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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.