Colphepeira

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Genus: Colphepeira
Species: C. catawba
Name

Colphepeira Archer, 1941

Type species: Epeira catawba Banks, 1911, by monotypy
References

Archer, A. F. 1941. Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama. Museum Paper of the Geological Survey of Alabama 18: 1–47. [12]
Levi, H. W. 1978. The American orb-weaver genera Colphepeira, Micrathena and Gasteracantha north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 148: 417–442.
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Colphepeira is a genus of North American orb-weaver spiders containing the single species, Colphepeira catawba. It was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1941,[2] and has only been found in United States and Mexico.[1]
References

"Gen. Colphepeira Archer, 1941". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Archer, A. F. (1941). "Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama". Museum Paper, Geological Survey of Alabama. 18: 1–47.