Parawixia

Parawixia
Parawixia dehaani in Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Parawixia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904
Species
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Parawixia is a genus of orb web weaving spiders from the family Araneidae. Most species of Parawixia are found in the Neotropics but one species, Parawixia dehaani, is found in Australasia and tropical Asia as far west as India.

Parawixia audax is one of the better known species and it makes a loose, large web placing itself in the hub, head down, or in a retreat creasted from a rolled-leaf. These are places 1–2 m above the ground but most species probably live in the canopy and so are rarely collected. Parawixia bistriata is known to be social and makes its webs fairly high up, frequently on telephone poles. All the individuals in a colony are of the same age and size and during the day they share a retreat in which they cluster together.

As of September 2016^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

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