Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Ocrepeira

Ocrepeira venustula (Keyserling, 1879)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: - -
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016847]
  • Distribution: Colombia to Chile
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  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Araneus albisectus Mello-Leitão, 1936, (50244); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Epeira venustula Keyserling, 1879: 308, pl. 4, f. 11 (Df).
Epeira venustula Keyserling, 1892: 128, pl. 6, f. 95 (f, Dm).
Araneus venustulus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 323.
Araneus albisectus Mello-Leitão, 1936d: 127, pl. 15 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016653].
Parawixia venustula Mello-Leitão, 1940b: 38 (T from Araneus).
Molinaranea albisecta Levi, 1991a: 177 (T from Araneus).
Wixia venustula Levi, 1991a: 180 (T from Parawixia).
Ocrepeira venustula Levi, 1993b: 94, f. 27-33, 143-154 (mf, T from Wixia).
Ocrepeira venustula Levi, 2001: 472, f. 119-123 (mf, S of Molinaranea albisecta).
References

Keyserling, E. (1879). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 29: 293-350, pl. 4. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2001). The orbweavers of the genera Molinaranea and Nicolepeira, a new species of Parawixia, and comments on orb weavers of temperate South America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155(9): 445-476. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1936d). Etude sur les arachnides de Papudo et Constitucion (Chili), recueillis par le prof. Dr Carlos E. Porter. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 40: 112-129. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires y de las gobernaciones de La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.,Zool.) 2: 3-62. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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