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Genus: Pozonia Schenkel, 1953 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Pozonia nigroventris (Bryant, 1936)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016986

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico to Venezuela, Cuba, Jamaica

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland j (1815a) of Pozonia cornuta - (Levi, 1993b)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) j (01814; destroyed by the fire 2018) of Kaira granadensis - (Levi, 1993b)

Taxonomic References

Wixia nigroventris Bryant, 1936b: 329, pl. 23, f. 10 (Dj) Original description

Wixia nigriventris Bryant, 1940: 346, f. 113 (Dm, lapsus)

Kaira granadensis Mello-Leitão, 1941a: 118 (Df; j per Levi, 1993b: 62) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057916]

Pozonia cornuta Schenkel, 1953a: 25, f. 23a-d (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057915]

Pozonia nigroventris Levi, 1993b: 62, f. 15-26 (m, Df, T from Wixia, S of Kaira granadensis and Pozonia cornuta)

Pozonia nigroventris Levi, 2002: 557, f. 284-286 (m)

Pozonia nigroventris Estrada-Alvarez, 2015: 54, f. 20-23 (f)

Pozonia nigroventris Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025: 48 (S of Pozonia cornuta confirmed)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1936b). Descriptions of some new species of Cuban spiders. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Felipe Poey" 10: 325-332. -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1940). Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 86: 247-532. -- Show included taxa

Estrada-Alvarez, J. C. (2015). Nueva especie de Pozonia Schenkel (Araneae: Araneidae) de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 51-54. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1993b). The Neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genera Wixia, Pozonia, and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153: 47-141. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941a). Notas sobre a sistematica das aranhas com descrição de algumas novas especies Sul Ameicanas. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 13: 103-127. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Blick, T. & Ballarin, F. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature IV: additional dubious and unavailable nomina, status of genera with invalid type species, further synonymies, and emendations (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 43-54. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, Blick & Ballarin, 2025
2016-02-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Estrada-Alvarez, 2015