Aculepeira

Aculepeira
	A. ceropegia
	A. armida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Aculepeira; Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942
Type species
	A. packardi; (Thorell, 1875)
Species
	26, see text
	blue: reported countries (WSC)

Aculepeira is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.

Species

As of January 2026^[update], this genus includes 26 species and two subspecies:

Aculepeira aculifera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – USA to Guatemala
Aculepeira albovittata (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Paraguay, Argentina
Aculepeira angeloi Álvares, Loyola & De Maria, 2005 – Brazil
Aculepeira annulipes (Lucas, 1838) – Canary Islands
Aculepeira apa Levi, 1991 – Brazil, Paraguay
Aculepeira armida (Audouin, 1826) – North Africa, Southern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia to China
- A. a. orientalis (Kulczyński, 1901) – Russia (Asia), China
Aculepeira azul Levi, 1991 – Panama
Aculepeira busu Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) – Alps, southern Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe and Central Asia), Kazakhstan
- A. c. sinensis (Schenkel, 1953) – China
Aculepeira carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892) – Russia (Europe to Far East), Alaska, Canada, United States
Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan
Aculepeira escazu Levi, 1991 – Costa Rica
Aculepeira gravabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Honduras to Panama
Aculepeira lapponica (Holm, 1945) – Sweden, Finland, Russia (Europe to West Siberia)
Aculepeira luosangensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China
Aculepeira machu Levi, 1991 – Peru
Aculepeira matsudae Tanikawa, 1994 – Russia (Far East), Japan
Aculepeira morenoae Rubio, Izquierdo & Piacentini, 2013 – Argentina
Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875) – North America, Russia (Urals to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
Aculepeira serpentina Guo & Zhang, 2010 – China
Aculepeira sogdiana (Charitonov, 1969) – Uzbekistan
Aculepeira taibaishanensis Zhu & Wang, 1995 – China
Aculepeira talishia (Zawadsky, 1902) – Turkey, Iran, Caucasus to Central Asia
Aculepeira travassosi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Mexico to Argentina
Aculepeira visite Levi, 1991 – Hispaniola
Aculepeira vittata (Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1948) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

References

1 2 "Gen. Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
↑ Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.
↑ Rubio, Gonzalo D.; Izquierdo, Matias A.; Piacentini, Luis N. (2013). "A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 548–556. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2. hdl:11336/102080. PMID 24698837.

External links

Citizen science observations for Aculepeira at iNaturalist

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[wsc-1] 1 2 "Gen. Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-26.

[Cham1942-2] Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.

[rubio2013-3] Rubio, Gonzalo D.; Izquierdo, Matias A.; Piacentini, Luis N. (2013). "A new orb-weaving spider from the Argentinean flooding pampas grasses: Aculepeira morenoae new species (Araneae, Araneidae)". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 548–556. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.2. hdl:11336/102080. PMID 24698837.

Aculepeira

A. ceropegia

A. armida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942
Type species
A. packardi (Thorell, 1875)
Species
26, see text

blue: reported countries (WSC)