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

Alpaida guimaraes Levi, 1988

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014528

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, Brazil

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) 2f (01815, 00825; destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Holotype: Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul (MCN/FZBRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil f (11969) - (Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1f - (Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Alpaida guimaraes Levi, 1988: 390, f. 19-22 (Df; m f. 23-24 see Alpaida tupinamba) Original description

Alpaida guimaraes Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025: 65, f. 1A-D, 2A-D, 3A-C (Dm, f)

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

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
2025-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025
2025-09-23	First description of male	Pamplona, Bonaldo & Pantoja, 2025	Old value