Acanthepeira

Acanthepeira
A. stellata in North America
male Acanthepeira sp. in South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Acanthepeira Marx, 1883 [1]
Type species
A. stellata (Walckenaer, 1805)
Species
5, see text

Acanthepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by George Marx in 1883. ^[2]

Species

• 
  A. cherokee
• 
  A. marion
• 
  A. venusta

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this genus includes five species: ^[1]

• Acanthepeira cherokee Levi, 1976 – United States
• Acanthepeira labidura (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Acanthepeira marion Levi, 1976 – United States, Mexico
• Acanthepeira stellata (Walckenaer, 1805) – Canada, United States, Mexico
• Acanthepeira venusta (Banks, 1896) – United States, Cuba, Hispaniola

A. stellata feeding on Cisseps fulvicollis

References

1. "Gen. Marx, 1883". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-26.
2. Marx, G. (1883). Araneina.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Acanthepeira at iNaturalist