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Parawixia
Sign in to saveParawixia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904. Most species are found in the Neotropics, but one species, Parawixia dehaani, is found in Australasia and tropical Asia as far west as India.
Species
Abandoned-web Orb-weaver
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 58
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- USNM, OMNH, MCZ, UCONN, UNM, MNRJ
- Recorded in
- Ecuador, Philippines, Trinidad And Tobago, Panama, Nicaragua, Thailand, Brasil, Uruguai
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Natural history
- Species
- References
Parawixia is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904. Most species are found in the Neotropics, but one species, Parawixia dehaani, is found in Australasia and tropical Asia as far west as India.
==Natural history== Parawixia audax, one of the better known species, makes a large loose web, placing itself either in the center with its head down or in a retreat created from a rolled-leaf. This species builds webs above the ground, but there are likely many more species further up in the canopy that are rarely collected by usual means.
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