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Mecynogea

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Mecynogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903. The name is derived from the Greek mekyno (μηυνω), meaning "to lengthen", and "gea" (γεα), meaning "earth".

Species

Basilica Orbweaver

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAraneidae
Observations5,658
Observations recorded4,355

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
7
Family
Araneidae
Collections
MCZ, ABS, MNRJ, MPEG, USNM
Recorded in
Argentina, Mexico, United States, Brasil

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Mecynogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903. The name is derived from the Greek mekyno (μηυνω), meaning "to lengthen", and "gea" (γεα), meaning "earth".

==Species== it contains nine species in the Americas: Mecynogea apatzingan Levi, 1997 – Mexico Mecynogea bigibba Simon, 1903 – Brazil, Uruguay Mecynogea buique Levi, 1997 – Brazil Mecynogea erythromela (Holmberg, 1876) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile Mecynogea infelix (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Colombia, Brazil Mecynogea lemniscata (Walckenaer, 1841) – USA to Argentina Mecynogea martiana (Archer, 1958) – Cuba, Hispaniola Mecynogea ocosingo Levi, 1997 – Mexico Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997 – Venezuela, Brazil

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mecynogea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.