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Genus: Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967 | Family: Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877

Viracucha birabeni (Carcavallo & Martínez, 1961)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019506

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Described:

Distribution: Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (9219) - (Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Corinoctenus birabeni Carcavallo & Martínez, 1961: 9, f. 3 (Df) Original description

Corinoctenus birabeni Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1970a: 168 (species inquirenda)

Ancylometes birabeni Brignoli, 1983c: 462

Viracucha birabeni Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025: 279, f. 1A-E, 2A-B (f, T from Ancylometes)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa

Carcavallo, R. U. & Martínez, A. (1961). La subfamilia Corinocteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 23: 7-13. -- Show included taxa

Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1970a). Consideraciones sobre el género Ancylometes Bertkau 1880 (Araneae: Pisauridae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 27: 155-179. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Piacentini, L. N. (2025). The validity of Ancylometes birabeni (Carcavallo & Martínez, 1961) (Araneae: Ancylometidae). Arachnology 20(2): 279-280. doi: 10.13156/arac.2025.20.2.279 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025
2025-07-02	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025		Species transferred from Ancylometes to Viracucha