†Pulchellaranea pedunculata Poinar 2015 (orb-weaving spider)
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Arachnida - Araneae - Araneidae
Full reference: G. Poinar. 2015. Pulchellaranea pedunculata n. gen., n. sp. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new genus of spiders with a review of araneid spiders in Cenozoic Dominican amber. Historical Biology 27:103-108
Belongs to Pulchellaranea according to G. Poinar 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Poinar A-10-267, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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