Wixia abdominalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017148

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil

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Taxonomic References
Wixia abdominalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882c: 438, pl. 31, f. 13 (Df) Original description
Araneus abdominalis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 276
Wixia abdominalis Levi, 1993b: 56, f. 1-6 (f, Dm)
Wixia abdominalis Levi, 2002: 551, f. 233-234 (m)
Wixia abdominalis Luna-Sarmiento & Sabogal-González, 2023: 140, f. 4C-D (j habitus)
References

Levi, H. W. (1993b). The Neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genera Wixia, Pozonia, and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153: 47-141. -- 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

Luna-Sarmiento, D. A. & Sabogal-González, A. (2023). Arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) de la cuenca alta y media del río Apaporis, en la región amazónica colombiana. Revista Colombiana Amazónica 13(2022): 130-145. [[not publ. before April 2023]] -- 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

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1882c). On new genera and species of Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 50(3): 423-442, pl. 29-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02749.x -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-09-05 New taxonomic reference entry Luna-Sarmiento & Sabogal-González, 2023
2025-09-05 Species distribution update Luna-Sarmiento & Sabogal-González, 2023 Old value

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