Alpaida venger Castanheira & Baptista, 2015

Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira, Castanheira, Pedro De Souza & Prado, André Wanderley Do, 2018, Notes on the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) with description of four new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Zootaxa 4407 (3), pp. 321-345 : 343

Alpaida venger Castanheira & Baptista, 2015

New records. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais: Catas Altas : Caraça , around park headquarters, secondary woods, 1.X.2010, looking up, R. Baptista coll., 3 ♂, 2 ♀ ( UFRJ 279 ) ; 3.X.2010, looking down, R. Baptista coll., 1 ♀, 1 immature (UFRJ 0717); 5.X.2010, looking up, R. Baptista coll., 2 ♀ (UFRJ 0741); 4.X.2010, looking up, R. Baptista coll., 1 ♀ (UFRJ 0836); 4.X.2010, beating, R. Baptista coll., 2 ♀ (UFRJ 0873); idem, around park headquarters, secondary woods, lakeshore, 4.X.2010, looking up, R. Baptista coll., 1 ♀ (UFRJ 0842); Rio Preto : Fazenda do Luluca , 14–20.V.2002, R. Baptista et al. coll., 79 immatures. ( MNRJ 1582 ) ; Rio de Janeiro : Guapimirim: around Dedo de Deus peak, 2 ♀ ( MNRJ 4256 ) .

Distribution. A. venger has been recorded from Catas Altas , central Minas Gerais state and Santa Teresa, central Espírito Santo state, to Guapimirim and Rio de Janeiro , central Rio de Janeiro state, all in southeastern Brazil (Map 2).