Lipocrea

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
Subfamilia: Araneinae
Tribus: Mangorini
Genus: Lipocrea
Species: L. diluta – L. epeiroides – L. fusiformis – L. longissima
Name

Lipocrea Thorell, 1878

Type species: Meta fusiformis Thorell, 1877
References

Thorell, T. 1878. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 1–317. [6]
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Lipocrea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Indonesia
Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) — India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) — Central, East, Southern Africa

References

"Gen. Lipocrea Thorell, 1878". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
Thorell, T. (1878). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 13: 1–317.