''Testudinaria'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Władysław Taczanowski
Władysław Taczanowski (; 17 March 1819, in Jabłonna, Lublin Voivodeship – 17 January 1890, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and collector of natural history who explored the Russian Far East and northern Africa. He specialized mainly in orn ...
in 1879.
Species
it contains nine species:
*''
Testudinaria bonaldoi''
Levi
Levi ( ; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelites, Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron ...
, 2005 – Brazil
*''
Testudinaria debsmithae''
Levi, 2005 – Suriname to Peru, Bolivia
*''
Testudinaria elegans''
Taczanowski, 1879 – Panama to Peru
*''
Testudinaria geometrica''
Taczanowski, 1879 (
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) – Panama to Peru, Brazil
*''
Testudinaria gravatai''
Levi, 2005 – Brazil
*''
Testudinaria lemniscata''
(Simon
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, 1893) – Brazil
*''
Testudinaria quadripunctata''
Taczanowski, 1879 – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
*''
Testudinaria rosea''
( Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
*''
Testudinaria unipunctata''
(Simon, 1893) – Brazil
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
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