Biology:Prepotelus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prepotelus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Prepotelus
Simon, 1898[1]
Type species
P. lanceolatus Simon, 1898
Species

4, see text

Prepotelus is a genus of Mauritian crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1898.[2]

Species

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

  • Prepotelus curtus Ledoux, 2004 — Réunion
  • Prepotelus lanceolatus Simon, 1898 — Mauritius, Réunion
  • Prepotelus limbatus (Simon, 1898) — Mauritius
  • Prepotelus pectinitarsis (Simon, 1898) — Mauritius

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Prepotelus Simon, 1898". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3702. Retrieved 2019-04-02. 
  2. Simon, E. (1898). "Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIV. Arachnides recueillis par M. Ch. Alluaud à l'île Maurice en 1896.". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66: 276–281. 

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