Verrucosa

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Verrucosa
Arrowhead Spider - Verrucosa arenata, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia - 03.jpg
V. arenata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Verrucosa
McCook, 1888
Type species
V. arenata
(Walckenaer, 1841)
Species

45, see text

Verrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Henry McCook in 1888. [1] It contains almost fifty described species, most of which live in South America. The only species in the United States is the arrowhead spider. [2]

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Species

V. furcifera from Brisbane, Australia Verrucosa sp. (15148762316).jpg
V. furcifera from Brisbane, Australia

As of April 2019 it contains forty-five species: [3]

Verrucosa furcifera(Keyserling, 1886) from Queensland, Australia was placed in this genus due to its strong outer similarity. However, it is considered misplaced, [4] and is now Carepalxis furcifera .

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References

  1. McCook, H. C. (1888). "Necessity for revising the nomenclature of American spiders". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1888: 74–79.
  2. "Genus Verrucosa". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  3. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Verrucosa McCook, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  4. Lise, Arno A.; Kesster, Cynara C.; Da Silva, Estevam L. Cruz (2015). "Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3921 (1): 1–105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3921.1.1. PMID   25781566.

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