''Lipocrea'' 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
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Oc ...
in 1878.
Species
it contains four species:
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Lipocrea diluta''
Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Indonesia
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Lipocrea epeiroides''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
*''
Lipocrea fusiformis''
(Thorell, 1877) — India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Lipocrea longissima''
(Simon, 1881) — Central, East, Southern Africa
References
Araneidae genera
Araneidae
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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