Mecynogea

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: Cyrtophorinae
Genus: Mecynogea
Species: M. apatzingan – M. bigibba – M. buique – M. chavona – M. erythromela – M. lemniscata – M. martiana – M. ocosingo – M. sucre
Name

Mecynogea Simon, 1903

Type species: Mecynogea bigibba Simon, 1903
Synonyms

Hentzia McCook, 1894 (preoccupied)

Type species: Hentzia basilica McCook, 1894

Allepeira Banks, 1932 (nom. nov. pro Hentzia)

References

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Mecynogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.[3] The name is derived from the Greek mekyno (μηυνω), meaning "to lengthen", and "gea" (γεα), meaning "earth".[4]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains nine species in the Americas:[1]

Mecynogea apatzingan Levi, 1997 – Mexico
Mecynogea bigibba Simon, 1903 – Brazil, Uruguay
Mecynogea buique Levi, 1997 – Brazil
Mecynogea erythromela (Holmberg, 1876) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile
Mecynogea infelix (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Colombia, Brazil
Mecynogea lemniscata (Walckenaer, 1841) – USA to Argentina
Mecynogea martiana (Archer, 1958) – Cuba, Hispaniola
Mecynogea ocosingo Levi, 1997 – Mexico
Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997 – Venezuela, Brazil

References

"Gen. Mecynogea Simon, 1903". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Levi, H. W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 309–382.
Simon, E. (1903). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 47: 21–39. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.25299.
"Genus Mecynogea". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-13.