Penestomus

Penestomus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Penestomidae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[3] The genus was formerly included in the family Eresidae, but was elevated to its own family in 2010. It is now considered closer to Zodariidae.

Penestomus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Penestomidae
Genus: Penestomus
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
P. planus
Simon, 1902
Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found only in Lesotho and South Africa:[1]

  • Penestomus armatus (Lehtinen, 1967) – South Africa
  • Penestomus croeseri Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989 – South Africa
  • Penestomus egazini Miller, Griswold & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Penestomus kruger Miller, Griswold & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Penestomus montanus Miller, Griswold & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa, Lesotho
  • Penestomus planus Simon, 1902 (type) – South Africa
  • Penestomus prendinii Miller, Griswold & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa
  • Penestomus stilleri (Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989) – South Africa
  • Penestomus zulu Miller, Griswold & Haddad, 2010 – South Africa

See also

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Penestomus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Miller, J. A.; Griswold, C. E.; Haddad, C. R. (2010). "Taxonomic revision of the spider family Penestomidae (Araneae, Entelegynae)". Zootaxa. 2534: 6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2534.1.1.
  3. Simon, E. (1902). "Descriptions de quelques arachnides nouveaux de la section de Cribellatés". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 1902: 240–243. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19237.
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