Carepalxis

Carepalxis is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1872.^[2] These spiders only build webs at night and break them down in the morning. C. coronata builds orb webs up to 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter with closely woven spiral threads.^[3]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains twelve species:^[1]

• Carepalxis beelzebub (Hasselt, 1873) — Australia (Victoria)
• Carepalxis bilobata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland)
• Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895 — Paraguay, Argentina
• Carepalxis coronata (Rainbow, 1896) — Australia (New South Wales)
• Carepalxis lichensis Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (Queensland)
• Carepalxis montifera L. Koch, 1872 — Australia (Queensland)
• Carepalxis perpera (Petrunkevitch, 1911) — Mexico
• Carepalxis poweri Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (New South Wales)
• Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 — Jamaica, Mexico to Brazil
• Carepalxis suberosa Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
• Carepalxis tricuspidata Chrysanthus, 1961 — New Guinea
• Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

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