Paraverrucosa

Paraverrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1939 to contain the type species, Paraverrucosa neglecta.^[2] Each of the four species have been moved around between Wagneriana, Edricus, and Verrucosa, but were all moved to this genus in 2020.^[3]

Paraverrucosa
Paraverrucosa neglecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Paraverrucosa Mello-Leitão, 1939[1]
Type species
P. neglecta Mello-Leitão, 1939
Species
4, see text

Species

As of April 2024^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

• P. eupalaestra (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
• P. heteracantha (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
• P. neglecta Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Trinidad to Argentina
• P. uzaga (Levi, 1991) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

Formerly included:

• P. octospinosa Mello-Leitão, 1949 (Transferred to Wagneriana)
• P. uropygialis Mello-Leitão, 1944 (Transferred to Alpaida)

See also

• List of Araneidae species: N–Z