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Genus: Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Alpaida pretiosa Baptista, Castanheira & Wermelinger-Moreira, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064347

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Guyana

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Laboratório de Diversidade de Aracnídeos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2m 3f (2109, 2117, 2152) - (Baptista et al., 2025)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil m (7825) - (Baptista et al., 2025)
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 1m 1f (7824, 7826) - (Baptista et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Alpaida antonio Levi, 1988: 446, f. 396-397 (m; misidentified per Baptista et al., 2025: 90)

Alpaida pretiosa Baptista, Castanheira & Wermelinger-Moreira in Baptista et al., 2025: 90, f. 9A-E, 10A-D (Dmf) Original description

References

Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S., Schinelli, H. B. P., Oliveira, F. S. M., Wermelinger-Moreira, G., Assuncao-Oliveira, G. & Prado, A. W. do (2025). Ten new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 (Araneae: Araneidae) from southeast Brazil. Arachnology 20(1): 80-89. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.80 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1988). The neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genus Alpaida (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151(7): 365-487. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-13	Species distribution update	Levi, 1988	Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Levi, 1988
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Baptista et al., 2025
2025-03-13	New species inserted	Baptista et al., 2025