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Genus: Ocrepeira Marx, 1883 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Ocrepeira camelus (Simon, 1895)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015488

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Described:

Distribution: Paraguay, Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (1835) of Carepalxis vianai - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895g: 157 (Df) Original description

Carepalxis vianai Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948: 16, f. 22-25 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064223]

Carepalxis camelus Levi, 1992a: 255, f. 1-5 (f, S of Carepalxis vianai)

Ocrepeira camelus Castanheira et al., 2025: 40 (T from Carepalxis)

References

Castanheira, P. de S., Dimitrov, Di., Baptista, R. L. C., Scharff, N. & Framenau, V. W. (2025). Taxonomy and systematics of the Australasian gum nut orb-weaving spider genus Carepalxis (Araneae, Araneidae). Invertebrate Systematics 39(7, IS25009): 1-45. doi: 10.1071/IS25009 -- Show included taxa

Gerschman de P., B. S. & Schiapelli, R. D. (1948). Arañas argentinas II. Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Zool.) 4: 1-20. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1992a). The American species of the orb-weaver genus Carepalxis and the new genus Rubrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 98(2-3, 1991): 251-264. doi: 10.1155/1991/26493 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895g). Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64: 131-160. -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Castanheira et al., 2025
2025-07-20	Species transferred to new genus	Castanheira et al., 2025		Species transferred from Carepalxis to Ocrepeira