''Kapogea'' 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
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 1997.
Species
it contains four species in the Americas, from Mexico to Brazil:
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Kapogea cyrtophoroides''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904) – Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
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Kapogea isosceles''
( Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Greater Antilles, Panama to Argentina
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Kapogea sellata''
(Simon, 1895) – Greater Antilles, Costa Rica to Argentina
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Kapogea sexnotata''
(Simon, 1895) – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
References
External links
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Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of Mexico
Spiders of South America
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