# Colphepeira

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Colphepeira catawba
| authority = [Archer](/source/Allan_Frost_Archer), 1941<ref name=NMBE />
}}

'''''Colphepeira''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [North America](/source/North_America)n [orb-weaver spiders](/source/Araneidae) containing the single species, '''''Colphepeira catawba'''''. It was first described by [Allan Frost Archer](/source/Allan_Frost_Archer) in 1941,<ref name=Arch1941>{{cite journal| last=Archer| first=A. F.| year=1941| title=Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama.| journal=Museum Paper, Geological Survey of Alabama| pages=1–47| volume=18}}</ref> and has only been found in [United States](/source/United_States) and [Mexico](/source/Mexico).<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Colphepeira Archer, 1941| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-05-13| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/299}}</ref>

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Category:Araneidae
Category:Monotypic Araneidae genera
Category:Spiders of Mexico
Category:Spiders of the United States
Category:Taxa named by Allan Frost Archer

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