Wixia

Wixia is a genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1882,^[2] containing the single species, Wixia abdominalis. There used to be many more, but they have all been moved, dispersed between Ocrepeira, Alpaida, and several other genera.^[1]

Wixia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Wixia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882[1]
Species:	W. abdominalis
Binomial name
Wixia abdominalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882