Lipocrea

Lipocrea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878.^[2]

Lipocrea
L. fusiformis, female from Okinawa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Lipocrea Thorell, 1878[1]
Type species
L. fusiformis (Thorell, 1877)
Species
4, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

• Lipocrea diluta Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Indonesia
• Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Yemen, India
• Lipocrea fusiformis (Thorell, 1877) — India to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi)
• Lipocrea longissima (Simon, 1881) — Central, East, Southern Africa