Biology:Pisaurina

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pisaurina
Nursery Web Spider - Pisaurina mira, Meadowood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia.jpg
Pisaurina mira from Mason Neck, Virginia
Nursery Web Spider - Pisaurina dubia, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg
Pisaurina dubia from Woodbridge, Virginia
Scientific classification e
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)
Species

4, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Pelopatis Bishop, 1924[2]
  • Thanatidius Simon, 1898[2]

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]

See also

References

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 Carico, J. E. (1972). "The Nearctic spider genus Pisaurina (Pisauridae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 79: 297. 
  3. Simon, E (1898). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 
  4. "Pisaurina mira" (in en). https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pisaurina_mira/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5407773 entry