Metepeira

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Metepeira | image = Metepeira_sp._on_web_Los_Angeles_2016-09-09.jpg | image_caption = ''Metepeira sp.'' | image2 = Labyrinth Orbweaver - Metepeira labyrinthea, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg | image2_caption = ''M. labyrinthea'', hiding in its labyrinth | authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''M. spinipes'' | type_species_authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 44, see text }}

'''''Metepeira''''' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1903.<ref name=Pick1903>{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=F. O.| year=1903| contribution=Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology}}</ref> The name is derived from the Ancient Greek μετά and the obsolete genus name ''Epeira'', denoting a genus similar to ''Epeira''.

==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains forty-four species found from Argentina to Canada, including Caribbean islands:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Metepeira F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903| website=World Spider Catalog| accessdate=2019-05-14| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/355}}</ref> *''Metepeira arizonica'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira atascadero'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico *''Metepeira bengryi'' (Archer, 1958) – Jamaica *''Metepeira brunneiceps'' Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana *''Metepeira cajabamba'' Piel, 2001 – Ecuador, Peru *''Metepeira calamuchita'' Piel, 2001 – Argentina *''Metepeira celestun'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico *''Metepeira chilapae'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Mexico *''Metepeira comanche'' Levi, 1977 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira compsa'' (Chamberlin, 1916) – Puerto Rico to Argentina *''Metepeira crassipes'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira datona'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Greater Antilles *''Metepeira desenderi'' Baert, 1987 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) *''Metepeira foxi'' Gertsch & Ivie, 1936 – USA, Canada *''Metepeira galatheae'' (Thorell, 1891) – Chile, Argentina *''Metepeira glomerabilis'' (Keyserling, 1892) – Colombia to Paraguay, Brazil *''Metepeira gosoga'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira grandiosa'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 – North America *''Metepeira gressa'' (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina *''Metepeira inca'' Piel, 2001 – Peru *''Metepeira incrassata'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Mexico *''Metepeira jamaicensis'' Archer, 1958 – Hispaniola, Jamaica, Grand Cayman Is. *''Metepeira karkii'' (Tullgren, 1901) – Chile, Argentina *''Metepeira labyrinthea'' (Hentz, 1847) – North America *''Metepeira lacandon'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico *''Metepeira lima'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – Peru *''Metepeira maya'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico to Costa Rica *''Metepeira minima'' Gertsch, 1936 – USA to Honduras *''Metepeira nigriventris'' (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Bolivia *''Metepeira olmec'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico to Panama *''Metepeira pacifica'' Piel, 2001 – Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica *''Metepeira palustris'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Canada *''Metepeira petatlan'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico *''Metepeira pimungan'' Piel, 2001 – USA *''Metepeira rectangula'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina *''Metepeira revillagigedo'' Piel, 2001 – Mexico *''Metepeira roraima'' Piel, 2001 – Colombia, Brazil, Guyana *''Metepeira spinipes'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira tarapaca'' Piel, 2001 – Peru, Chile *''Metepeira triangularis'' (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba, Hispaniola *''Metepeira uncata'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903 – Guatemala to Costa Rica *''Metepeira ventura'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 – USA, Mexico *''Metepeira vigilax'' (Keyserling, 1893) – Hispaniola, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina *''Metepeira ypsilonota'' Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Brazil

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://bugguide.net/node/view/26091 Metepeira] at BugGuide

Category:Araneidae Category:Araneidae genera Category:Spiders of North America Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge