''Yacolla'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the souther ...

n tangled nest spiders containing the single species, ''Yacolla pikelinae''. It was first described by

Pekka T. Lehtinen Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnologist and taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated. Biography Lehtinen was born on 5 April 1934 in a small village, Pargas, ...

in 1967, and has only been found in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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Amaurobiidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Brazil Endemic spiders of Brazil Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen {{Amaurobiidae-stub