Viracucha

Viracucha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Euarthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Viracucha Lehtinen^[1]
Type species
Viracucha andicola
Species
6, see text

Viracucha is a genus of spiders in the Ctenidae family. It was first described in 1967 by Lehtinen. As of 2017, it contains 6 species from South America.^[1]

Species

Viracucha comprises the following species:^[1]

Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) - Bolivia
Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) - Brazil
Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) - Argentina
Viracucha paraguayensis (Strand, 1909) - Brazil, Paraguay
Viracucha ridleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) - Brazil
Viracucha silvicola (Soares & Soares, 1946) - Brazil

References

1 2 3 "Ctenidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-19.

Extant Araneae families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida

Suborder Mesothelae
Liphistiidae (segmented spiders)

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