Kapogea
Genus of spiders
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Kapogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1997.[2]
| Kapogea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Kapogea Levi, 1997[1] |
| Type species | |
| K. sellata (Simon, 1895) | |
| Species | |
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Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains four species in the Americas, from Mexico to Brazil:[1]
- Kapogea cyrtophoroides (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904) – Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Kapogea isosceles (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Greater Antilles, Panama to Argentina
- Kapogea sellata (Simon, 1895) – Greater Antilles, Costa Rica to Argentina
- Kapogea sexnotata (Simon, 1895) – Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
