''Alpaida'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of South American orb-weaver spiders first described by

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and wor ...

in 1889.

Species

it contains 153 species:

References

External links

Araneidae genera Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge {{Araneidae-stub