''Paraplectana'' is a

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of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.

Species

it contains thirteen species: *'' Paraplectana coccinella'' (

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, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.) *'' Paraplectana duodecimmaculata''

, 1897 – Indonesia (Java) *'' Paraplectana gravelyi'' ( Tikader, 1961) – India *'' Paraplectana hemisphaerica'' ( C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone *'' Paraplectana kittenbergeri'' Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania *'' Paraplectana multimaculata'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa *'' Paraplectana rajashree'' Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India *'' Paraplectana sakaguchii'' Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan *'' Paraplectana thorntoni'' (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen **'' Paraplectana t. occidentalis''

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, 1916 – West, Central Africa *'' Paraplectana tsushimensis'' Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan *'' Paraplectana walleri'' (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar **'' Paraplectana w. ashantensis'' Strand, 1907 – Ghana

References

Araneidae Araneidae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub