World Spider Catalog

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

Alpaida tupinamba Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066050

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul (MCN/FZBRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil m (10287, former paratype of Alpaida guimaraes) - (Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Alpaida guimaraes Levi, 1988: 390, f. 23-24 (m; misidentified per Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025: 65)

Alpaida tupinamba Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025: 68, f. 4A-D, 5 (Dm) Original description

References

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

Pamplona, R., Bonaldo, A. B. & Pantoja, P. (2025). Three new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889, the real male of A. guimaraes Levi, 1988 and the male of Aculepeira apa Levi, 1991 (Araneae: Araneidae). Zootaxa 5696(1): 63-82. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.4 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2025-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Levi, 1988
2025-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025
2025-09-23	New species inserted	Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025