taxonID	type	description	language	source
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Spinepeira schlingeri Levi, 1995	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Females Spinepeira species can be distinguished from other Araneidae genera by the combination of the following characteristics: posterior eye row procuved; carapace without modifications; one anterior median tubercle, a pair of dorsal projections, two posterior median tubercles (Levi 1995: figs 16, 17) and short scape 2 x wider than long (Fig. 2 D, E).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFB98FC5FFAF7.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Ecuador and Peru.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFA49FE26F8FF.taxon	description	(Figure 1)	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFA49FE26F8FF.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. ♀ holotype from PERU, Monzon Valley, Tingo Mana, Depto. Huanuco, Peru, 18 Dec. 1954, E. I. Schlinger, E. S. Ross (CAS). Examined by photos.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD767FFE8B0DFFA49FE26F8FF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Females Spinepeira schlingeri are differentiated from Spinepeira erwini sp. nov. by the combination of the following characteristics: abdomen with anterior median tubercle and posterior median tubercles short; a pair of dorsal projections with truncated ending (Fig. 1 A); ventral abdominal black mark broken, longer than wide (Fig. 1 B) and scape with convergent sides (Fig. 1 C) whereas abdomen with anterior median tubercle exceeding the length of the cephalothorax, wider and more prominent posterior median tubercles, a pair of dorsal projections with a pointed ending (Fig. 1 A), ventral abdominal black mark entire, wider than long (Fig. 1 B) and scape with parallel side in the latter (Fig. 1 D).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	description	(Figure 2)	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. ♀ holotype from ECUADOR, Orellana province: Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 220 m, 0.63194 ° S, 76.14416 ° W, 01 October 2000, Col. T. Erwin, M. Pimienta, A. Troya & M. Santacruz (MEPN-INV 49162).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym in honor of Terry Erwin, an impressive researcher who passed away in 2020. In recognition of his devotion to canopy invertebrate research and its massive biodiversity surveys in Ecuador, thanks to whom canopy arachnid research in the country can be possible today.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The female of Spinepeira erwini sp. nov. can be easily differentiated from Spinepeira schlingeri by the combination of the following characteristics: abdomen with anterior median tubercle that exceeds the length of the cephalothorax, a pair of dorsal projections with a pointed ending (vs. truncated ending in S. schlingeri), and wider and more prominent posterior median tubercles (Fig. 2 A); ventral abdominal black mark entire wider than long (Fig. 2 B) whereas ventral abdominal black mark broken and longer than wide in the latter (Fig. 1 B); scape with parallel side in Spinepeira erwini sp. nov. (Fig. 2 D) while side convergent in Spinepeira schlingeri (Fig. 1 D).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	description	Description. Female (Holotype): Total length 4.97; prosoma 1.85; opisthosoma 5.21; anterior median tubercle 2.64; posterior median tubercles 0.68; abdominal projections 1.82. AME length: 0.11; ALE 0.07; PME 0.16; PLE 0.07. Eyes interdistances: AME-AME 0.09; AME-ALE 0.22; PME-PME 0.1; PME-PLE 0.22; ALE-PLE 0.02. Leg measurements. Total (femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, tarsus): I: 8.69 (2.68, 0.95, 2.27, 2.00, 0.79); II: 7.33 (2.39, 0.85, 1.69, 1.75, 0.65); III: 3.92 (1.19, 0.48, 0.79, 0.91, 0.55); IV: 6.02 (1.64, 0.64, 1.59, 1.44, 0.71). Carapace orange with a blackish mark in the middle (Fig. 2 A, C). Chelicerae yellow, promargin with four teeth, retromargin with three teeth. Sternum black, longer than wide. Labium black, endites yellow (Fig. 2 B). Abdomen dorsally orange-yellow, covered with pale-yellowish setae, yellow and long median tubercle which exceeds the length of the prosoma, two pointed, long, and thin dorsal projections, two posterior yellowish median tubercles with scattered black marks between them, a hump-like structure pointed forward (in lateral view) and a smaller and yellowish posterior projection (Figs 2 A-C). Ventrally with a big black mark between the epigynum and the spinnerets and four smaller white patches between the big black mark and the spinnerets (Fig. 2 B). Legs orange, covered with thin and creamy setae with some spines (Figs 2 A-C). The femur of legs I and II is orange-black with a thick black line retrolaterally (Fig. 2 C). Epigynum with short apically rounded scape, sides parallel (Figs 2 D, E), internal genitalia with two large, oval spermathecae almost touching medially, fertilization duct short and curved (Fig. 2 E). Male. Unknown	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Orellana province (Fig. 5 A).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD764FFEDB0DFFA0DFF01FD27.taxon	biology_ecology	Natural history. The only known specimen was collected by fogging the canopy in the Ecuadorian Amazonian region.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFEDB0DFFD78FE8DFBD7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Scoloderus species can be easily distinguished from other Araneidae genera by the following characteristics: a bulging, helmet-shaped carapace without two knobs, high clypeus of at most two-and-a-half diameters of the anterior median eyes, a pedicel generally attached to the posterior third of an abdomen that is not projected anteriorly (Traw 1996; see Levi 2002, figs 38 – 39).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFEDB0DFFD78FE8DFBD7.taxon	distribution	Distribution. USA to Argentina.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	description	(Figure 3)	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material ♀ holotype from ECUADOR, Orellana: Reserva Étnica Waorani, Onkone Gare Biological Station, 247 m, 0.65714 ° S, 76.4555 ° W, 25 January 2006, Col. T. Erwin, M. Pimienta, A. Troya & M. Santacruz (MECN-AR 560).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet honors David Alan Neill, who passed away in this year (2025). A great researcher and teacher of the lead author during his time as a student at the Amazon State University of Ecuador (UEA). In recognition of his dedication to Ecuadorian flora’s conservation, taxonomy, and systematics.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The female of S. neilli sp. nov. differs from all the other species of the genus by the presence of a unique dorsal hump in the opisthosoma (Fig. 3 A, C) (vs opisthosoma often with three dorsal humps in S. nigriceps, always with three humps in S. tuberculifer and the opisthosoma without dorsal humps in S. cordatus, S. gibber, and S. ackerlyi). The narrow scape of epigynum with parallel sides resembles S. tuberculifer; however, it can be easily differentiated from it by the presence of two bigger spermathecae, much further apart from each other and highly curved, longer, and thicker copulatory ducts, almost touching (Figs 3 E, F).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	description	Description. Female (Holotype): Total length: 5.35; carapace: 1.43 long. Diameter of AME 0.11, PME 0.11, ALE 0.08, PLE 0.08. Eye inter-distances AME-AME 0.11; AME-ALE 0.42; ALE-PLE 0.01; PME-PLE 0.58; PME-PME 0.20. Leg measurements: Total (femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, tarsus): I: 3.01 (1.07, 0.34, 0.70, 0.59, 0.31); II: 2.80 (0.93, 0.43, 0.59, 0.53, 0.32); III: 1.72 (0.53, 0.27, 0.37, 0.33, 0.22); IV: (0.92, missing patella to tarsus). Carapace, reddish without a notch. Chelicerae reddish. Sternum, pale reddish to orange. (Fig. 2 B). Legs with setae and reddish, similar to the carapace (Fig. 3 A-D). Dorsum of the abdomen, with a unique dorsal hump in a shiny area (Fig. 3 A, C). Opisthosoma hairy and pale reddish to orange with six pairs of black spots, with its diameter decreasing to the most distal part of the abdomen, being the first pair of spots notably bigger than the others (Fig. 3 A, C). The sides of the abdomen are creamy (Fig. 3 D). Venter of the abdomen brown (Fig. 3 B). Male. Unknown.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Orellana province (Fig. 5 A)	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD762FFECB0DFFB28FF01FEEB.taxon	biology_ecology	Natural history. The only known specimen was collected by fogging the canopy in the Ecuadorian Amazonian region.	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD763FFEFB0DFF811FB2CFF76.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. ♂ from ECUADOR, Orellana province: Tiputini Biodiversity Station, 220 m, 0.63194 ° S, 76.14416 ° W, 02 Januay 2001, Col. T. Erwin, M. Pimienta, A. Troya & M. Santacruz (MEPN-INV 49163).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
F42087CFD763FFEFB0DFF811FB2CFF76.taxon	diagnosis	Note. The pair of dorsal humps of this specimen are tiny, almost imperceptible (Fig. 4 A-C).	en	Díaz-Guevara, David R., Dupérré, Nadine (2025): A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953. Zootaxa 5660 (4): 587-595, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.9
