Aculepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.[2]
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As of April 2019[update] it contains twenty-seven species:[1]
- Aculepeira aculifera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Guatemala
- Aculepeira albovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Paraguay, Argentina
- Aculepeira angeloi Álvares, Loyola & De Maria, 2005 – Brazil
- Aculepeira apa Levi, 1991 – Paraguay
- Aculepeira armida (Audouin, 1826) – Southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia to China
- Aculepeira azul Levi, 1991 – Panama
- Aculepeira busu Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
- Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) – Alps, southern Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe and Central Asia), Kazakhstan, China
- Aculepeira c. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) – China
- Aculepeira carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892) – USA, Canada, Russia (Europe to Far East)
- Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran?
- Aculepeira escazu Levi, 1991 – Costa Rica
- Aculepeira gravabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Honduras to Panama
- Aculepeira lapponica (Holm, 1945) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (West Siberia)
- Aculepeira luosangensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
- Aculepeira machu Levi, 1991 – Peru
- Aculepeira matsudae Tanikawa, 1994 – Japan
- Aculepeira morenoae Rubio, Izquierdo & Piacentini, 2013 – Argentina[3]
- Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875) – North America, Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
- Aculepeira serpentina Guo & Zhang, 2010 – China
- Aculepeira taibaishanensis Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
- Aculepeira talishia (Zawadsky, 1902) – Turkey, Iran, Caucasus to Central Asia
- Aculepeira travassosi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Mexico to Argentina
- Aculepeira visite Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
- Aculepeira vittata (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
Rubio, Gonzalo D.; Izquierdo, Matias A.; Piacentini, Luis N. (2013). "A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 548–556. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2. hdl:11336/102080. PMID 24698837.
