Viracucha
Genus of spiders
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Viracucha is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]
| Viracucha | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Ctenidae |
| Genus: | Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. andicola (Simon, 1906) | |
| Species | |
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Species
As of April 2021[update], Viracucha contained seven species:[1]
- Viracucha andicola (Simon, 1906) – Bolivia
- Viracucha exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil
- Viracucha mammifer (Mello-Leitão, 1939)[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