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Genus: Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967 | Family: Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877

Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020810

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Described:

Distribution: Argentina

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina f (16540) - (Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Acanthoctenus misionesicus Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 256, f. 40 (Df) Original description

Viracucha misionesicus Lehtinen, 1967: 274 (T from Acanthoctenus)

Viracucha misionesicus Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025: 279, f. 3A-F (f)

References

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.) 4(Zoología 29): 213-302. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. & Piacentini, L. N. (2025). The validity of Ancylometes birabeni (Carcavallo & Martínez, 1961) (Araneae: Ancylometidae). Arachnology 20(2): 279-280. doi: 10.13156/arac.2025.20.2.279 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2025-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Piacentini, 2025