Testudinaria

For the plant genus, see Dioscorea.

Testudinaria is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1879.^[2]

Testudinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Testudinaria Taczanowski, 1879[1]
Type species
T. geometrica Taczanowski, 1879
Species
9, see text
Synonyms[1]
Nanduti Mello-Leitão, 1945

Species

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

• Testudinaria bonaldoi Levi, 2005 – Brazil
• Testudinaria debsmithae Levi, 2005 – Suriname to Peru, Bolivia
• Testudinaria elegans Taczanowski, 1879 – Panama to Peru
• Testudinaria geometrica Taczanowski, 1879 (type) – Panama to Peru, Brazil
• Testudinaria gravatai Levi, 2005 – Brazil
• Testudinaria lemniscata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil
• Testudinaria quadripunctata Taczanowski, 1879 – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
• Testudinaria rosea (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
• Testudinaria unipunctata (Simon, 1893) – Brazil