Species Acanthepeira marion

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Works Cited

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Possible A. Marion - Acanthepeira marion - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)

Genus Acanthepeira

Species marion (Acanthepeira marion)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Acanthepeira marion Levi, 1976

Name is a noun in apposition, after the type locality. (Levi, 1976)

Range

Pennsylvania south to Florida and west to Missouri and Louisiana as well as south into Mexico(1)

Works Cited

1.	The Orb-weaver Genera Verrucosa, Acanthepeira, Wagneriana, Acacesia, Wixia, Scoloderus and Alpaida North of Mexico H. W. Levi. 1976. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol 147 (8): 351-391.

Contributed by Lyn Atherton on 8 April, 2010 - 8:24am
Additional contributions by cheins, pfeiffer
Last updated 7 January, 2023 - 9:25am

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