Witica (spider)

Witica is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1895.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only three species.[1]

Witica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Witica
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895[1]
Type species
W. crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865)
Species
  • W. alobatus (Franganillo, 1931) — Cuba
  • W. cayanus (Taczanowski, 1873) — Northern South America
  • W. crassicauda (Keyserling, 1865) — Mexico to Peru
Synonyms[1]
  • Salassina

References
  1. "Gen. Witica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1895). Arachnida. Araneida.


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