Mangora (spider)

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Mangora
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Mangora acalypha
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Mangora maculata from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus:Mangora
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 [1]
Type species
M. picta
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889
Species

186, see text

Mangora is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889. [2]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge British entomologist

The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.

Species

Mangora spiculata from Woodbridge, Virginia Mangora spiculata, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
Mangora spiculata from Woodbridge, Virginia

As of April 2019 it contains 186 species in the Americas and the Caribbean: [1]

<i>Mangora acalypha</i> species of arachnid

Mangora acalypha is a species of spider in the family Araneidae, found throughout the Palearctic region.

Charles Athanase Walckenaer French civil servant and scientist

Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.

Herbert Walter Levi was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany, educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England. He then received his higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi authored about 150 scientific papers on spiders and on biological conservation. He is the author of the popular Golden Guide Spiders and their Kin, with Lorna Rose Levi and Herbert Spencer Zim.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Mangora O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology