Verrucosa

Verrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Henry McCook in 1888. It contains almost fifty described species, most of which live in South America. The only species in the United States is the arrowhead spider.

==Species== thumb|right| Verrucosa zebra female from São Paulo|São Paulo, Brazil it contains forty-five species: Verrucosa alvarengai Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa apuela Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador Verrucosa arenata (Walckenaer, 1841) (type) – USA to Panama, Greater Antilles Verrucosa avilesae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia Verrucosa bartica Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana Verrucosa benavidesae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru Verrucosa brachiscapa Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador Verrucosa cachimbo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa cajamarca Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru Verrucosa caninde Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa canje Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana Verrucosa carara Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Costa Rica Verrucosa chanchamayo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru Verrucosa coroico Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Bolivia Verrucosa cuyabenoensis Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Bolivia Verrucosa cuyuni Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana Verrucosa cylicophora (Badcock, 1932) – Brazil, Paraguay Verrucosa excavata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa florezi Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa galianoae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa guatopo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela Verrucosa hoferi Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa lampra (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil Verrucosa lata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa latigastra Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana, Brazil Verrucosa levii Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa macarena Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa manauara Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa meridionalis (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina Verrucosa meta Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa opon Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa pedrera Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa rancho Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela Verrucosa reticulata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama Verrucosa rhea Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa scapofracta Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina Verrucosa septemmammata Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana Verrucosa sergipana Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil Verrucosa silvae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru Verrucosa simla Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Trinidad Verrucosa suaita Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa tarapoa Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil Verrucosa tuberculata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia Verrucosa undecimvariolata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Argentina Verrucosa zebra (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina