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Spilasma

Spilasma is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. As of April 2019 it contains only three species.

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Spilasma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Spilasma
Simon, 18971
Type species
S. duodecimguttata
(Keyserling, 1879)
Species
  • S. baptistai Levi, 1995 – Brazil
  • S. duodecimguttata (Keyserling, 1879) – Honduras to Bolivia, Brazil
  • S. utaca Levi, 1995 – Peru

Spilasma is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897.2 As of April 2019 it contains only three species.1

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References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Spilasma Simon, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 65: 465–510.