| Acanthepeira venusta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Acanthepeira |
| Species: | A. venusta |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthepeira venusta (Banks, 1896) | |
Acanthepeira venusta is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae. It is found in the United States, Cuba, and Hispaniola. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 1,800 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and skull spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850, is divided into 94 genera.
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-set radii and spirals with no signal line or retreat. Some species are often found in long vegetation near water.
Metacyrba is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
Leucauge is a spider genus of long-jawed orb weavers, with over 160 species and fully pantropical distribution.
Leucauge venusta, known as the orchard orbweaver spider, is a long-jawed orbweaver spider that occurs from southern Canada to Colombia, along the East coast, reaching into the central US, also in South Asia. The web is often oriented horizontally, with the spider hanging down in the center.
Grevillea venusta, commonly known as Byfield spider flower, is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small region of central eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with simple and/or divided leaves, the leaves or lobes narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, and clusters of green and yellow flowers with a deep maroon to purplish black style covered with white hairs.
Acacesia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. It contains six species with a mostly neotropical distribution, ranging from South America to Mexico. One species, A. hamata, is found in the US as well.
Scytodes venusta is a species of spider of the genus Scytodes. It is distributed from Sri Lanka to Java, and introduced in the Netherlands. Female is known with 4.75-5.5 mm of length.
Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.
Alireza Zamani is an Iranian arachnologist and taxonomist.
Acanthepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by George Marx in 1883.
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Plusia venusta, the white-streaked looper, is a species of looper moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America.
Okanagana venusta is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae. It is found in North America.
Erioptera venusta is a species of limoniid crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
Baconia venusta is a species of clown beetle in the family Histeridae. It is found in North America.
Acanthepeira stellata, known generally as the starbellied orbweaver or starbellied spider, is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae. It is found in a range from Canada to Mexico. It is most commonly found along the Eastern and Western coastline of North America.
Hilarocassis is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 10 described species in Hilarocassis.
Leucauge argyrobapta, or Mabel's orchard orb weaver, is a species of long-jawed orb weaver in the spider family Tetragnathidae. It is found in Southern part of the USA, Mexico and Brazil, further testing must be done to see if it is found in more of Central and South America.
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