Paradiestus
| Paradiestus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Paradiestus Mello-Leitão, 1915[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. aurantiacus Mello-Leitão, 1915 | |
| Species | |
|
5, see text | |
Paradiestus is a genus of South American corinnid sac spiders first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1915.[2] It was considered a synonym of Corinna from 1925[3] to 2000.[4]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains five species, all found in Brazil:[1]
- Paradiestus aurantiacus Mello-Leitão, 1915 (type) – Brazil
- Paradiestus egregius (Simon, 1896) – Brazil
- Paradiestus giganteus (Karsch, 1880) – Brazil
- Paradiestus penicillatus (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Brazil
- Paradiestus vitiosus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Paradiestus Mello-Leitão, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
- ↑ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1915). "Alguns generos e especies novas de araneidos do Brasil". Brotéria (Ser. Zool.). 13: 129–142.
- ↑ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1925). "Pequenas notas arachnologicas". Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1: 455.
- ↑ Bonaldo, A. B. (2000). "Taxonomia da subfamília Corinninae (Araneae, Corinnidae) nas regiões Neotropica e Neárctica". Iheringia, Série Zoologia. 89: 60.