{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Popperaneus | authority = Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020<ref name=WSC_g5784 /> | type_species = ''Wixia gavensis'' | type_species_authority = (Camargo, 1950) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | Popperaneus gavensis|(Camargo, 1950) | Popperaneus iguape|(Levi, 1991) }} }}
'''''Popperaneus''''' is a small genus of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by J. Cabra-García and Gustavo Hormiga in 2020.<ref name=Cabr2020 /> {{as of|2021|11}} it contains only two species, both transferred from ''Wagneria'': ''P. gavensis'' and ''P. iguape''.<ref name=WSC_g5784 />
==References== <references>
<ref name=WSC_g5784>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Popperaneus Cabra-García & Hormiga, 2020| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2021-11-26| year=2021| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5784| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
<ref name=Cabr2020>{{cite journal| author-last=Cabra-García| author-first=J.| author2-last=Hormiga| author2-first=G.| year=2020| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| title=Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus ''Wagneriana'' (Araneae: Araneidae)| volume=188| issue=4| pages=976–1151| doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15068| url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal| author-last=Levi| author-first=H. W.| year=1991| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| title=The Neotropical orb-weaver genera ''Edricus'' and ''Wagneriana'' (Araneae: Araneidae)| volume=152| pages=363–415| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/7062}}
*{{cite journal| author-last=Camargo| author-first=H. F. de A.| year=1950| journal=Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria de Agricultura, São Paulo| title=Contribuição ao estudo das aranhas brasileiras (Arachnida-Araneae): Três espécies novas e uma pouco conhecida| trans-title=Contribution to the study of Brazilian spiders (Arachnida-Araneae): Three new species and one little known | language=Portuguese| volume=9| pages=223–248| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/2939}}
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Category:Araneidae genera Category:Spiders of South America
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