Alpaida (spider)

Alpaida is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1889.

Alpaida
Alpaida alticeps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889
Type species
A. conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889
Species
153, see text
Synonyms
Lariniacantha Parepeira Pickardiana Subaraneus Subedricus

Species

As of April 2019 it contains 153 species:

• A. acuta (Keyserling, 1865) — Panama to Argentina
• A. albocincta (Mello-Leitão, 1945) — Venezuela to Argentina
• A. almada Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. alticeps (Keyserling, 1879) — Brazil, Paraguay
• A. alto Levi, 1988 — Paraguay
• A. alvarengai Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. amambay Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Paraguay
• A. anchicaya Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. angra Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. antonio Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana
• A. arvoredo Buckup & Rodrigues, 2011 — Brazil
• A. atomaria (Simon, 1895) — Brazil, Argentina
• A. banos Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana
• A. biasii Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. bicornuta (Taczanowski, 1878) — Costa Rica to Argentina
• A. bischoffi Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. boa Levi, 1988 — Brazil, French Guiana
• A. boraceia Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. cachimbo Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. cali Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. calotypa (Chamberlin, 1916) — Peru
• A. canela Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. canoa Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. caramba Buckup & Rodrigues, 2011 — Brazil
• A. carminea (Taczanowski, 1878) — Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• A. chaco Levi, 1988 — Paraguay
• A. championi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) — Guatemala to Colombia
• A. chapada Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. chickeringi Levi, 1988 — Panama to Brazil
• A. cisneros Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Ecuador
• A. citrina (Keyserling, 1892) — Brazil, Argentina
• A. clarindoi Nogueira & Dias, 2015 — Brazil
• A. conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 — Panama
• A. constant Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. coroico Levi, 1988 — Bolivia
• A. costai Levi, 1988 — Argentina
• A. cuiaba Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. cuyabeno Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Ecuador
• A. darlingtoni Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. deborae Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana
• A. delicata (Keyserling, 1892) — Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana
• A. dominica Levi, 1988 — Lesser Antilles
• A. eberhardi Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. elegantula (Archer, 1965) — Martinique
• A. ericae Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. erythrothorax (Taczanowski, 1873) — French Guiana, Brazil
• A. gallardoi Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• A. gracia Levi, 1988 — Argentina
• A. graphica (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) — Mexico to Panama
• A. grayi (Blackwall, 1863) — Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
• A. guimaraes Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Guyana
• A. gurupi Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Brazil
• A. guto Abrahim & Bonaldo, 2008 — Brazil
• A. haligera (Archer, 1971) — Peru, Venezuela
• A. hartliebi Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. hoffmanni Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Paraguay
• A. holmbergi Levi, 1988 — Argentina
• A. iguazu Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. imperatrix Baptista, Castanheira & do Prado, 2018 — Brazil
• A. imperialis Baptista, Castanheira & do Prado, 2018 — Brazil
• A. iquitos Levi, 1988 — Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, French Guiana
• A. itacolomi Santos & Santos, 2010 — Brazil
• A. itapua Levi, 1988 — Paraguay
• A. itauba Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. jacaranda Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. kartabo Levi, 1988 — Guyana
• A. keyserlingi Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. kochalkai Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. latro (Fabricius, 1775) — Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
• A. leucogramma (White, 1841) — Panama to Argentina
• A. levii Saturnino, Rodrigues & Bonaldo, 2015 — Brazil
• A. lomba Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. losamigos Deza & Andía, 2014 — Peru
• A. lubinae Levi, 1988 — Venezuela
• A. machala Levi, 1988 — Ecuador
• A. madeira Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. manicata Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Brazil
• A. marista Baptista, Castanheira & do Prado, 2018 — Brazil
• A. marmorata (Taczanowski, 1873) — Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana
• A. marta Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. mato Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. mendensis Baptista, Castanheira & do Prado, 2018 — Brazil
• A. moata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) — Panama, Colombia
• A. moka Levi, 1988 — Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
• A. monzon Levi, 1988 — Peru
  • Alpaida m. audiberti Dierkens, 2014 — French Guiana
• A. morro Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. muco Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. murtinho Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. nadleri Levi, 1988 — Venezuela
• A. nancho Levi, 1988 — Peru
• A. narino Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. natal Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. navicula (L. Koch, 1871) — Brazil
• A. negro Levi, 1988 — Colombia, Brazil
• A. nigrofrenata (Simon, 1895) — Brazil
• A. niveosigillata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) — Colombia, Ecuador
• A. nonoai Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. octolobata Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. oliverioi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) — Brazil
• A. orgaos Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. oyapockensis Dierkens, 2014 — French Guiana
• A. pedro Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. penca Deza & Andía, 2014 — Peru
• A. picchu Levi, 1988 — Peru
• A. quadrilorata (Simon, 1897) — Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
• A. queremal Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. rioja Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. rosa Levi, 1988 — Brazil, Argentina
• A. rossi Levi, 1988 — Peru, Brazil
• A. rostratula (Keyserling, 1892) — Brazil, Argentina
• A. rubellula (Keyserling, 1892) — Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• A. sandrei (Simon, 1895) — Brazil
• A. santosi Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. schneblei Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. scriba (Mello-Leitão, 1940) — Brazil
• A. septemmammata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) — Mexico to Argentina
• A. sevilla Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. silencio Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. simla Levi, 1988 — Trinidad, Brazil
• A. sobradinho Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. sulphurea (Taczanowski, 1873) — French Guiana
• A. sumare Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. tabula (Simon, 1895) — Guyana to Bolivia
• A. tayos Levi, 1988 — Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana
• A. teresinha Braga-Pereira & Santos, 2013 — Brazil
• A. thaxteri Levi, 1988 — Trinidad
• A. tijuca Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. toninho Braga-Pereira & Santos, 2013 — Brazil
• A. tonze Santos & Santos, 2010 — Brazil
• A. trilineata (Taczanowski, 1878) — Peru
• A. trispinosa (Keyserling, 1892) — Panama to Argentina
• A. truncata (Keyserling, 1865) — Mexico to Argentina
  • Alpaida t. obscura (Caporiacco, 1948) — Guyana
  • Alpaida t. sexmaculata (Caporiacco, 1948) — Guyana
• A. tullgreni (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
• A. tuonabo (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) — Panama
• A. urucuca Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. utcuyacu Levi, 1988 — Peru
• A. utiariti Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. vanzolinii Levi, 1988 — Peru, Brazil, Argentina
• A. variabilis (Keyserling, 1864) — Colombia
• A. venger Castanheira & Baptista, 2015 — Brazil
• A. veniliae (Keyserling, 1865) — Panama to Argentina
• A. vera Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. versicolor (Keyserling, 1877) — Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
• A. wenzeli (Simon, 1898) — St. Vincent
• A. weyrauchi Levi, 1988 — Peru
• A. yanayacu Saturnino, Rodrigues & Bonaldo, 2015 — Brazil
• A. yotoco Levi, 1988 — Colombia
• A. yucuma Levi, 1988 — Brazil
• A. yungas Levi, 1988 — Bolivia
• A. yuto Levi, 1988 — Paraguay, Argentina

External links

"Alpaida" at the Encyclopedia of Life