Neogea

Neogea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Herbert Walter Levi in 1983.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only three species.[1]

Neogea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Neogea
Levi, 1983[1]
Type species
N. egregia
(Kulczyński, 1911)
Species
  • N. egregia (Kulczyński, 1911) – New Guinea
  • N. nocticolor (Thorell, 1887) – India to Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • N. yunnanensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 – China

References
  1. "Gen. Neogea Levi, 1983". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Levi, H. W. (1983). "The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 150: 247–338.


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