{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Viracucha | authority = Lehtinen, 1967<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''V. andicola'' | type_species_authority = (Simon, 1906) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 7, see text }}
'''''Viracucha''''' is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.<ref name=Leht1967>{{cite journal| last=Lehtinen| first=P. T.| year=1967| title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.| journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici| pages=199–468| volume=4}}</ref>
==Species== {{As of|2021|April}}, ''Viracucha'' contained seven species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-25| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/644| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Viracucha andicola'' <small>(Simon, 1906)</small> – Bolivia *''Viracucha exilis'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1936)</small> – Brazil *''Viracucha mammifer'' {{Small|(Mello-Leitão, 1939)}}<ref>Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." ''Zootaxa'' 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.</ref> – Brazil *''Viracucha misionesicus'' <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1945)</small> – Argentina *''Viracucha paraguayensis'' <small>(Strand, 1909)</small> – Brazil, Paraguay *''Viracucha ridleyi'' <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897)</small> – Brazil *''Viracucha silvicola'' <small>(Soares & Soares, 1946)</small> – Brazil
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Ctenidae Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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