Pararaneus

Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.[2]

Pararaneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Pararaneus
Caporiacco, 1940[1]
Type species
P. cyrtoscapus
(Pocock, 1898)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]

  • Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra
  • Pararaneus perforatus (Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa
  • Pararaneus pseudostriatus (Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa
  • Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East
  • Pararaneus uncivulva (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar

References

  1. "Gen. Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Caporiacco, L. di (1940). "Alcuni aracnidi di Somalia". Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 31: 295–305.


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