Lipocrea

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Lipocrea
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Female L. fusiformis from Okinawa
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Female L. longissima from South Africa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Lipocrea
Thorell, 1878 [1]
Type species
L. fusiformis (Thorell, 1877)
Species

5, see text

Lipocrea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878. [2]

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Description

Female and male spiders measure 7-8 mm in total length. These spiders have straw-coloured bodies and legs. The carapace is elongate pear-shaped but narrower in the eye region with an elongate fovea and a narrow longitudinal band dorsally. The abdomen is straw-coloured frequently with paired black spots, oval and elongate with a narrow tip anteriorly and a slight hump above the spinnerets. Their legs are very long and decorated with spots and setae, same color as body, and bear setae with dark spots at their bases. [3]

Species

As of September 2025, this genus includes five species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Genus Lipocrea". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  2. Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.
  3. Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N.; Webb, P. (2022). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 2 (E-Ne). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 44. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6619195. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.