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Carepalxis

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Carepalxis

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Carepalxis is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872. These spiders only build webs at night and break them down in the morning. C. coronata builds orb webs up to in diameter with closely woven spiral threads.

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Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Carepalxis, and connects out to Araneidae, Animalia and Araneae.

Vinony files it under Araneidae genera and Cosmopolitan spiders.

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAraneidae
Observations recorded286

Carepalxis is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie van de wielwebspinnen (Araneidae).

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
169
Family
Araneidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NMV, AM, QM
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Araneidae
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taxon name
Carepalxis
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Carepalxis
Commons category
Carepalxis
taxon author citation
L. Koch, 1872
taxonomic type
Carepalxis montifera
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Carepalxis is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872. These spiders only build webs at night and break them down in the morning. C. coronata builds orb webs up to in diameter with closely woven spiral threads.

==Species== it contains twelve species: Carepalxis beelzebub (Hasselt, 1873) — Australia (Victoria) Carepalxis bilobata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland) Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895 — Paraguay, Argentina Carepalxis coronata (Rainbow, 1896) — Australia (New South Wales) Carepalxis lichensis Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (Queensland) Carepalxis montifera L. Koch, 1872 — Australia (Queensland) Carepalxis perpera (Petrunkevitch, 1911) — Mexico Carepalxis poweri Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (New South Wales) Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 — Jamaica, Mexico to Brazil Carepalxis suberosa Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea Carepalxis tricuspidata Chrysanthus, 1961 — New Guinea Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

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