Biology:Pisaurina
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Pisaurina | |
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| Pisaurina mira from Mason Neck, Virginia | |
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| Pisaurina dubia from Woodbridge, Virginia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Pisaurina Simon, 1898[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. mira (Walckenaer, 1837)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Pisaurina is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3] It likes to live within vegetated areas such as meadows, bushes or tall grass, preferring warm or tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.[4]
Species
(As of June 2019) it contains four species, found only in Canada, the United States, and on the Greater Antilles:[1]
- Pisaurina brevipes (Emerton, 1911) – USA, Canada
- Pisaurina dubia (Hentz, 1847) – USA
- Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – USA, Canada
- Pisaurina undulata (Keyserling, 1887) – USA, Cuba
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Pisaurina Simon, 1898". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2417. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carico, J. E. (1972). "The Nearctic spider genus Pisaurina (Pisauridae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 79: 297.
- ↑ Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
- ↑ "Pisaurina mira" (in en). https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pisaurina_mira/.
Wikidata ☰ Q5407773 entry
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