Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Alpaida

Alpaida pretiosa Baptista, Castanheira & Wermelinger-Moreira, 2025

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-03-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064347]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Guyana
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil; m (7825) (Baptista et al., 2025)
  • Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil; 1m 1f (7824, 7826) (Baptista et al., 2025)
  • Paratype: Laboratório de Diversidade de Aracnídeos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2m 3f (2109, 2117, 2152) (Baptista et al., 2025)
Taxonomic references
Alpaida antonio Levi, 1988: 446, f. 396-397 (m; misidentified per Baptista et al., 2025: 90).
Alpaida pretiosa Baptista, Castanheira & Wermelinger-Moreira, in Baptista et al., 2025: 90, f. 9A-E, 10A-D (Dmf).
References

Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S., Schinelli, H. B. P., Oliveira, F. S. M., Wermelinger-Moreira, G., Assuncao-Oliveira, G. & Prado, A. W. do (2025). Ten new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 (Araneae: Araneidae) from southeast Brazil. Arachnology 20(1): 80-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1988). The neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genus Alpaida (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151(7): 365-487. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-03-13 Species distribution update Levi, 1988 n/a (Old value)
2025-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Levi, 1988 n/a
2025-03-13 New taxonomic reference entry Baptista et al., 2025 n/a
2025-03-13 New species inserted Baptista et al., 2025 n/a