Biology:Phruronellus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Phruronellus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Phruronellus
Chamberlin, 1921[1]
Type species
P. formica
(Banks, 1895)
Species

5, see text

Phruronellus is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1921.[2] Originally placed with the Liocranidae,[2] it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,[3] and to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[4]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains five species, all found in the United States :[1]

  • Phruronellus californicus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
  • Phruronellus floridae Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
  • Phruronellus formica (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA
  • Phruronellus formidabilis Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
  • Phruronellus pictus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/575. Retrieved 2019-05-22. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Chamberlin, R. V. (1921). "A new genus and a new species of spiders in the group Phrurolitheae.". The Canadian Entomologist 53 (3): 69–70. doi:10.4039/Ent5369-3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/37727. 
  3. Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2002). "Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae". Zoologica Scripta 31 (3): 265. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. 
  4. Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1. 

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