Verrucosa
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Arrowhead Spider - Verrucosa arenata, Julie Metz Wetlands, Woodbridge, Virginia - 03.jpg
| image_caption = V. arenata
| taxon = Verrucosa
| authority = McCook, 1888
| type_species = V. arenata
| type_species_authority = (Walckenaer, 1841)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 45, see text
}}
Verrucosa is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Henry McCook in 1888.{{cite journal| last=McCook| first=H. C.| year=1888| title=Necessity for revising the nomenclature of American spiders.| journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia| pages=74–79| volume=1888}} It contains almost fifty described species, most of which live in South America. The only species in the United States is the arrowhead spider.{{cite web| title=Genus Verrucosa| publisher=BugGuide| accessdate=2019-05-15| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1992}}
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains forty-five species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Verrucosa McCook, 1888| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/418| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- Verrucosa alvarengai Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa apuela Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador
- Verrucosa arenata (Walckenaer, 1841) (type) – USA to Panama, Greater Antilles
- Verrucosa avilesae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia
- Verrucosa bartica Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- Verrucosa benavidesae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru
- Verrucosa brachiscapa Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador
- Verrucosa cachimbo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa cajamarca Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru
- Verrucosa caninde Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa canje Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- Verrucosa carara Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Costa Rica
- Verrucosa chanchamayo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Peru
- Verrucosa coroico Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Bolivia
- Verrucosa cuyabenoensis Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Bolivia
- Verrucosa cuyuni Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana
- Verrucosa cylicophora (Badcock, 1932) – Brazil, Paraguay
- Verrucosa excavata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa florezi Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa galianoae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa guatopo Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela
- Verrucosa hoferi Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa lampra (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil
- Verrucosa lata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa latigastra Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Guyana, Brazil
- Verrucosa levii Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa macarena Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa manauara Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa meridionalis (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina
- Verrucosa meta Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa opon Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa pedrera Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa rancho Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Venezuela
- Verrucosa reticulata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Panama
- Verrucosa rhea Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa scapofracta Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil, Argentina
- Verrucosa septemmammata Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
- Verrucosa sergipana Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Brazil
- Verrucosa silvae Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia, Peru
- Verrucosa simla Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Trinidad
- Verrucosa suaita Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa tarapoa Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
- Verrucosa tuberculata Lise, Kesster & Silva, 2015 – Colombia
- Verrucosa undecimvariolata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Argentina
- Verrucosa zebra (Keyserling, 1892) – Brazil, Argentina
Verrucosa furcifera (Keyserling, 1886) from Queensland, Australia was placed in this genus due to its strong outer similarity. However, it is considered misplaced,{{cite journal |last1=Lise |first1=Arno A. |last2=Kesster |first2=Cynara C. |last3=Da Silva |first3=Estevam L. Cruz |title=Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae) |journal=Zootaxa |year=2015 |volume=3921 |issue=1 |pages=1–105 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3921.1.1|pmid=25781566 }} and is now Carepalxis furcifera.
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External links
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