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Genus: Wixia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940, (58352); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Wixia proxima Mello-Leitão, 1940d: 207 (Df) Original description

Wixia proxima Levi, 1993b: 56 (type lost, unrecognizable species = nomen dubium)

References

Levi, H. W. (1993b). The Neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genera Wixia, Pozonia, and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153: 47-141. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940d). Aranhas do Espírito Santo coligidas por Mario Rosa, em 1936 e 1937. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 199-214. -- Show included taxa

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