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Genus: Micrepeira Schenkel, 1953 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Micrepeira hoeferi Levi, 1995

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016640

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil

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Holotype: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil f - (Levi, 1995b)

Taxonomic References

Spilasma tubulofaciens Quintero, 1974: 311, f. 1-5 (f; misidentified per Levi, 1995b: 196)

Micrepeira hoeferi Levi, 1995b: 196, f. 171-181 (Dmf) Original description

Micrepeira hoeferi Levi, 2002: 559, f. 310 (m)

Micrepeira hoeferi Morales et al., 2025: 2, f. 2C, 3A-D (mf)

References

Levi, H. W. (1995b). Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 153-213. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Morales, J., Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A., Andrade Santiago, L. de & Sobczak, J. (2025). First record of Micrepeira hoeferi (Araneae, Araneidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Biota Colombiana 26(e1265): 1-7. doi: 10.21068/26193124.1265 -- Show included taxa

Quintero A. Jr., D. (1974). The unusual web of Spilasma tubulofaciens, with taxonomic notes on the species (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 81(2): 307-314. doi: 10.1155/1974/92304 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Quintero, 1974
2025-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Morales et al., 2025
2021-07-26	Species distribution update		Old value