Biology:Prasonica

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prasonica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Prasonica
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
P. albolimbata
Simon, 1895
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Lobetina Simon, 1895[2]

Prasonica is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[3]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains ten species:[1]

  • Prasonica affinis Strand, 1906 – Algeria
  • Prasonica albolimbata Simon, 1895 (type) – Congo, Madagascar, Yemen
  • Prasonica anarillea Roberts, 1983 – Seychelles (Aldabra)
  • Prasonica hamata Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon
  • Prasonica insolens (Simon, 1909) – India, Vietnam, Java
  • Prasonica nigrotaeniata (Simon, 1909) – West, Central, East Africa
  • Prasonica olivacea Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia
  • Prasonica opaciceps (Simon, 1895) – New Guinea
  • Prasonica plagiata (Dalmas, 1917) – New Zealand
  • Prasonica seriata Simon, 1895 – Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Prasonica Simon, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/390. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. Grasshoff, M. (1971). "Die Tribus Mangorini, IV. Die Mangora-Gruppe (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae-Araneinae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica 52: 295. 
  3. Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. https://archive.org/stream/histoirenaturell00sim. 

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