Hingstepeira
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''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: *'' Hingstepeira arnolisei'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *'' 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 {{Araneidae-stub