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

Ocrepeira gibbosa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015494

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK j (1905.4.28.3212) - (Levi, 1992a)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France j (8494) of Carepalxis salobrensis - (Levi, 1992a)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK j (1905.4.28.3213) of Carepalxis rotunda - (Levi, 1992a)
Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f of Carepalxis eremita - (Levi, 1991a)

Taxonomic References

Carepalxis gibbosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 48, pl. 4, f. 10 (Dj)

Carepalxis gibbosa Keyserling, 1892: 54, pl. 2, f. 43 (j)

Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895g: 157 (Df; j per Levi, 1992a: 259) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064221] Original description

Carepalxis rotunda O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896a: 224, pl. 27, f. 7 (Df; j per Levi, 1992a: 259) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064222]

Carepalxis eremita Archer, 1965b: 131, f. 2-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064219]

Carepalxis salobrensis Levi, 1992a: 259, f. 11-17 (f, S of Carepalxis eremita, C. gibbosa and C. rotunda; chose the younger name as valid, without explanation)

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

References

Archer, A. F. (1965b). Nuevos argiopidos (arañas) de las Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 5: 129-133. -- 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

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- 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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1896a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 161-224. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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

External Resource References

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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