Pronous
| Pronous | |
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| specimen from Mexico | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Pronous Keyserling, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 | |
| Species | |
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16, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[3]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- Pronous affinis Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
- Pronous beatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Pronous colon Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
- Pronous felipe Levi, 1995 – Mexico
- Pronous golfito Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
- Pronous intus Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
- Pronous lancetilla Levi, 1995 – Honduras
- Pronous nigripes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Pronous pance Levi, 1995 – Colombia
- Pronous peje Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
- Pronous quintana Levi, 1995 – Mexico
- Pronous shanus Levi, 1995 – Panama
- Pronous tetralobus Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
- Pronous tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Colombia to Argentina
- Pronous valle Levi, 1995 – Colombia
- Pronous wixoides (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ↑ Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 168.
- ↑ Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 30: 547–582.
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