''Hingstepeira'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
n
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Herbert Walter Levi
Herbert Walter Levi (January 3, 1921 – November 3, 2014) was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was born in Germany, and was educated there and at Leighton Park ...
in 1995.
Species
it contains four species:
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Hingstepeira arnolisei''
Levi, 1995 – Brazil
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Hingstepeira dimona''
Levi, 1995 – Brazil
*''
Hingstepeira folisecens''
(Hingston, 1932) – Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
*''
Hingstepeira isherton''
Levi, 1995 – Guyana
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of South America
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