# Viracucha

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***Viracucha*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [South American](/source/South_America) [wandering spiders](/source/Ctenidae) first described by [Pekka T. Lehtinen](/source/Pekka_T._Lehtinen) in 1967.[2]

## Species

As of April 2021, *Viracucha* contained seven species:[1]

- *[Viracucha andicola](/source/Viracucha_andicola)* (Simon, 1906) – Bolivia
- *[Viracucha exilis](/source/Viracucha_exilis)* ([Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o), 1936) – Brazil
- *[Viracucha mammifer](/source/Viracucha_mammifer)* (Mello-Leitão, 1939)[3] – Brazil
- *[Viracucha misionesicus](/source/Viracucha_misionesicus)* (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
- *[Viracucha paraguayensis](/source/Viracucha_paraguayensis)* ([Strand](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1909) – Brazil, Paraguay
- *[Viracucha ridleyi](/source/Viracucha_ridleyi)* ([F. O. Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Frederick_Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge), 1897) – Brazil
- *[Viracucha silvicola](/source/Viracucha_silvicola)* (Soares & Soares, 1946) – Brazil

## References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). ["Gen. Viracucha Lehtinen, 1967"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/644). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2019-05-25.

1. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.". *Annales Zoologici Fennici*. **4**: 199–468.

1. Arizala, Stephany, Facundo Martin Labarque, and Daniele Polotow. "Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae)." *Zootaxa* 4920.1 (2021): 1-55.

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