World Spider Catalog

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

Ocrepeira quasimodo (Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053669

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu do Departamento de Zoologia da Universidade de Brasília (DZUB), Brasília, Brazil f (9000) - (Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022)
Paratype: Museu do Departamento de Zoologia da Universidade de Brasília (DZUB), Brasília, Brazil 1m 3f (9274, 9284) - (Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Carepalxis quasimodo Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022: 391, f. 1-15 (Dmf) Original description

Ocrepeira quasimodo Castanheira et al., 2025: 41 (T from Carepalxis)

References

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

Ferreira-Sousa, L. & Motta, P. C. (2022). Diagnostic notes on the spider orb-weaving genera Carepalxis and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae), with description of three new species from Central Brazil. Zootaxa 5087(2): 389-399. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.2.9 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	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
2022-01-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022
2022-01-08	New species inserted	Ferreira-Sousa & Motta, 2022