Neuquenia

Neuquenia is a genus of South American tangled nest spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species, both found in Argentina.[1]

Neuquenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Neuquenia
Mello-Leitão, 1940[1]
Type species
N. pallida
Mello-Leitão, 1940
Species
  • N. pallida Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Argentina
  • N. paupercula (Simon, 1905) – Argentina

References
  1. "Gen. Neuquenia Mello-Leitão, 1940". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940). "Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires y de las gobernaciones de La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut". Revista del Museo de La Plata. 2 (N.S., Zool.): 3–62.


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