Mecynogea

Mecynogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.^[3] The name is derived from the Greek mekyno (μηυνω), meaning "to lengthen", and "gea" (γεα), meaning "earth".^[4]

Mecynogea
M. lemniscata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Mecynogea Simon, 1903[1]
Type species
M. bigibba Simon, 1903
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Allepeira Banks, 1932[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains nine species in the Americas:^[1]

• Mecynogea apatzingan Levi, 1997 – Mexico
• Mecynogea bigibba Simon, 1903 – Brazil, Uruguay
• Mecynogea buique Levi, 1997 – Brazil
• Mecynogea erythromela (Holmberg, 1876) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile
• Mecynogea infelix (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Colombia, Brazil
• Mecynogea lemniscata (Walckenaer, 1841) – USA to Argentina
• Mecynogea martiana (Archer, 1958) – Cuba, Hispaniola
• Mecynogea ocosingo Levi, 1997 – Mexico
• Mecynogea sucre Levi, 1997 – Venezuela, Brazil