Perenethis

Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.[3]

Perenethis
P. venusta, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Perenethis
L. Koch, 1878[1]
Type species
P. venusta
L. Koch, 1878
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:[1]

  • Perenethis dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan or India
  • Perenethis fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
  • Perenethis simoni (Lessert, 1916) – Africa, Comoros
  • Perenethis sindica (Simon, 1897) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
  • Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) – Africa
  • Perenethis venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Perenethis L. Koch, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Sierwald, P. (1997). "Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae)". Journal of Arachnology. 25: 395.
  3. Koch, L. (1878). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 969–1044.


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