Larinioides
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| Larinioides | |
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| L. cornutus | |
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| L. patagiatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934[1] |
| Type species | |
| L. suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) | |
| Species | |
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Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934.[2] They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".
