Aculepeira

Aculepeira
A. ceropegia
A. armida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 [1]
Type species
A. packardi (Thorell, 1875)
Species
26, see text
blue: reported countries (WSC)

Aculepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942. ^{[2] [3]}

Species

As of January 2026 ^[update] , this genus includes 26 species and two subspecies: ^[1]

• Aculepeira aculifera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Guatemala
• Aculepeira albovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Paraguay, Argentina
• Aculepeira angeloi Álvares, Loyola & De Maria, 2005 – Brazil
• Aculepeira annulipes (Lucas, 1838) – Canary Islands
• Aculepeira apa Levi, 1991 – Brazil, Paraguay
• Aculepeira armida (Audouin, 1826) – North Africa, Southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia to China
  • A. a. orientalis (Kulczyński, 1901) – Russia (Asia), China
• Aculepeira azul Levi, 1991 – Panama
• Aculepeira busu Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
• Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) – Alps, southern Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe and Central Asia), Kazakhstan
  • A. c. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) – China
• Aculepeira carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892) – Russia (Europe to Far East), Alaska, Canada, United States
• Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan
• Aculepeira escazu Levi, 1991 – Costa Rica
• Aculepeira gravabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Honduras to Panama
• Aculepeira lapponica (Holm, 1945) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
• Aculepeira luosangensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
• Aculepeira machu Levi, 1991 – Peru
• Aculepeira matsudae Tanikawa, 1994 – Russia (Far East), Japan
• Aculepeira morenoae Rubio, Izquierdo & Piacentini, 2013 – Argentina
• Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875) – North America, Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
• Aculepeira serpentina Guo & Zhang, 2010 – China
• Aculepeira sogdiana (Charitonov, 1969) – Uzbekistan
• Aculepeira taibaishanensis Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
• Aculepeira talishia (Zawadsky, 1902) – Turkey, Iran, Caucasus to Central Asia
• Aculepeira travassosi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Mexico to Argentina
• Aculepeira visite Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
• Aculepeira vittata (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

References

1. "Gen. Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2026-01-26.
2. Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
3. Rubio, Gonzalo D.; Izquierdo, Matias A.; Piacentini, Luis N. (2013). "A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 548–556. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2. hdl: 11336/102080 . PMID   24698837.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Aculepeira at iNaturalist