Gen.
Alpaida O. Pickard-Cambridge ,
1889 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01436 ]
N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Araneus Clerck, 1757 and considered a senior synonym of Parepeira Mello-Leitão, 1933 (contra Archer, 1951a: 42, who considered that name a junior synonym of Cercidia by transfer of type species), Subaraneus Caporiacco, 1948a: 661, type Araneus veniliae (Keyserling, 1865), Lariniacantha Archer, 1951a: 15, type Araneus grayi (Blackwall, 1863) and Subedricus Caporiacco, 1954: 84, type Araneus nigropustulatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) by Levi, 1976: 388, and of Pickardiana Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 192, type Edricus truncatus (Keyserling, 1865) by Levi, 1988: 472 (by transfer of type species, contra Archer, 1951a: 20, who considered that name a junior synonym of Verrucosa).
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-06-10
2020-06-10
Described in
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 52 (type Alpaida conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889; gender feminine)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 52 (type Alpaida conica O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889; gender feminine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 155 | accepted |
| 32 | synonym |
Reference
Edit history
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56. 
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