Viracucha Explained

Viracucha is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[1]

Species

, Viracucha contained seven species:^[2]

• Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) – Bolivia
• Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
• Viracucha mammifer ^[3] – Brazil
• Viracucha misionesicus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
• Viracucha paraguayensis (Strand, 1909) – Brazil, Paraguay
• Viracucha ridleyi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Brazil
• Viracucha silvicola (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil

Notes and References

1. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 199–468. 4.
2. Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-25. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
3. Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." Zootaxa 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.