Penestomus
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Penestomus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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
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Species | |
9, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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.
Species
As of June 2019[update] 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
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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