Aphirape is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2]

Aphirape
Aphirape misionensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Aphirape
C. L. Koch, 1850[1]
Type species
A. ancilla
(C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species

8, see text

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found in Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Aphirape C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Vol. 5. Nürnberg: J. L. Lotzbeck. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.