Cuacuba

Cuacuba is a genus of Brazilian ray spiders first described by P. H. Prete, I. Cizauskas & Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1]

Cuacuba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Cuacuba
Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2018[1]
Type species
C. mariana Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2018
Species
  • C. mariana Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2018 — Brazil
  • C. morrodopilar Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2018 — Brazil

References

  1. "Gen. Cuacuba Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. Prete, P. H.; Cizauskas, I.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). "Three new species of the spider genus Plato and the new genus Cuacuba from caves of the states of Pará and Minas Gerais, Brazil (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae)". ZooKeys (753): 107–162. doi:10.3897/zookeys.753.20805. PMC 5935770.


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