''Wixia'' is a

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South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

n orb-weaver spiders first described by

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in 1882, containing the single species, ''Wixia abdominalis''. There used to be many more, but they have all been moved, dispersed between '' Ocrepeira'', ''

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'', and several other genera.

References

Araneidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of South America {{Araneidae-stub