Aculepeira

Aculepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.^[2]

Aculepeira
A. ceropegia
A. armida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942[1]
Type species
A. packardi (Thorell, 1875)
Species
27, see text

Species

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 a. orientalis (Kulczyński, 1901) – Russia (Asia), China
  • Aculepeira a. pumila (Simon, 1929) – France
• 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