Verrucosa

Verrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Henry McCook in 1888.[1] It contains almost fifty described species, most of which live in South America. The only species in the United States is the arrowhead spider.[2]

Verrucosa
V. arenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Verrucosa
McCook, 1888
Type species
V. arenata
(Walckenaer, 1841)
Species

45, see text

Species
V. furcifera from Brisbane, Australia

As of April 2019 it contains forty-five species:[3]

  • 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

Verrucosa furcifera (Keyserling, 1886) from Queensland, Australia was placed in this genus due to its strong outer similarity. However, it is considered misplaced,[4] and is now Carepalxis furcifera.

References
  1. McCook, H. C. (1888). "Necessity for revising the nomenclature of American spiders". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1888: 74–79.
  2. "Genus Verrucosa". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  3. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Verrucosa McCook, 1888". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  4. Lise, Arno A.; Kesster, Cynara C.; Da Silva, Estevam L. Cruz (2015). "Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3921 (1): 1–105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3921.1.1. PMID 25781566.

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