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

Ocrepeira perpera (Petrunkevitch, 1911)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015492

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico

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Taxonomic References

Epeira perplexa Banks, 1898b: 251, pl. 15, f. 1 (Df; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1841, see Araneus perplexus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064224]

Araneus perperus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 309 (replacement name) Original description

Carepalxis perpera Levi, 1991a: 178 (T from Araneus)

Carepalxis perpera Levi, 1992a: 258, f. 6-10 (f)

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

References

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. -- Show included taxa

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

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(4): 167-315. -- 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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