Mangora | |
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Mangora acalypha | |
Mangora maculata from Woodbridge, Virginia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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]
As of November 2024 [update] it contains 187 species in the Americas and the Caribbean: [1]
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