Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Cyrtarachninae
Tribus: Cyrtarachnini
Genus: Paraplectana
Species: P. coccinella – P. duodecimmaculata – P. hemisphaerica – P. japonica – P. kittenbergeri – P. multimaculata – P. sakaguchii – P. thorntoni – P. tsushimensis – P. walleri
Name
Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867
Type species: Paraplectana thorntoni Blackwall, 1865
Female Paraplectana tsushimensis
References
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
Vernacular names
English: Paraplectana
Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.[2]
Species
As of April 2019 it contains thirteen species:[1]
Paraplectana coccinella (Thorell, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.)
Paraplectana duodecimmaculata Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
Paraplectana gravelyi (Tikader, 1961) – India
Paraplectana hemisphaerica (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone
Paraplectana kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
Paraplectana multimaculata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa
Paraplectana rajashree Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan
Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen
Paraplectana t. occidentalis Strand, 1916 – West, Central Africa
Paraplectana tsushimensis Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan
Paraplectana walleri (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar
Paraplectana w. ashantensis Strand, 1907 – Ghana
References
"Gen. Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
Brito Capello, F. de (1867). "Descripçao de algunas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de Crustaceo e Arachnidios de Portugal e possessoes portuguezas do Ultramar". Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. New Series. 4 (1): 1–17.
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