Biology:Pronous

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pronous
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Pronous
Keyserling, 1881[1]
Type species
P. tuberculifer
Keyserling, 1881
Species

16, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Zigana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936[2]

Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[3]

Species

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

  • Pronous affinis Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
  • Pronous beatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
  • Pronous colon Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
  • Pronous felipe Levi, 1995 – Mexico
  • Pronous golfito Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
  • Pronous intus Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
  • Pronous lancetilla Levi, 1995 – Honduras
  • Pronous nigripes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Pronous pance Levi, 1995 – Colombia
  • Pronous peje Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Pronous quintana Levi, 1995 – Mexico
  • Pronous shanus Levi, 1995 – Panama
  • Pronous tetralobus Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
  • Pronous tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Colombia to Argentina
  • Pronous valle Levi, 1995 – Colombia
  • Pronous wixoides (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/393. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 168. 
  3. Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II.". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 30: 547–582. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3015840 entry