Popperaneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Popperaneus
Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020[1]
Type species
Wixia gavensis
(Camargo, 1950)
Species
  • Popperaneus gavensis (Camargo, 1950)
  • Popperaneus iguape (Levi, 1991)

Popperaneus is a small genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Cabra-García and Gustavo Hormiga in 2020.[2] As of November 2021 it contains only two species, both transferred from Wagneria: P. gavensis and P. iguape.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Popperaneus Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  2. Cabra-García, J.; Hormiga, G. (2020). "Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (4): 976–1151. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088.

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