Paraplectana Explained

Paraplectana is a genus of Asian and African orb-weaver spiders first described by F. de Brito Capello in 1867.^[1]

Species

it contains thirteen species:^[2]

• Paraplectana coccinella (Simon, 1890) – Myanmar, Indonesia (Nias Is.)
• Paraplectana duodecimmaculata Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
• Paraplectana gravelyi (Tikader, 1961) – India
• Paraplectana hemisphaerica (C. L. Koch, 1844) – Sierra Leone
• Paraplectana kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
• Paraplectana multimaculata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, East Africa
• Paraplectana rajashree Ahmed, Sumukha, Khalap, Mohan & Jadhav, 2015 – India
• Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 – China, Korea, Japan
• Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) – Central Africa, Yemen
  • Paraplectana t. occidentalis Strand, 1916 – West, Central Africa
• Paraplectana tsushimensis Yamaguchi, 1960 – China, Taiwan, Japan
• Paraplectana walleri (Blackwall, 1865) – West, Central Africa, Madagascar
  • Paraplectana w. ashantensis Strand, 1907 – Ghana

Notes and References

1. Brito Capello . F. de . 1867 . Descripçao de algunas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de Crustaceo e Arachnidios de Portugal e possessoes portuguezas do Ultramar . Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa . 1–17 . 4 . New Series . 1.
2. Gen. Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-14. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.