Ocrepeira

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Ocrepeira
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Ocrepeira venustula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Ocrepeira
Marx, 1883 [1]
Type species
O. ectypa
(Walckenaer, 1841)
Species

67, see text

Ocrepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by George Marx in 1883. [2]

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Species

As of April 2019 it contains sixty-seven species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ocrepeira Marx, 1883". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Marx, G. (1883), "Araneina", in Howard, L. O. (ed.), A list of the invertebrate fauna of South Carolina