Paravulsor is a monotypic genus of South American araneomorph spiders in the family Xenoctenidae, containing the single species, Paravulsor impudicus. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1922,[2] and has only been found in Brazil.[1] Originally placed with the wandering spiders,[2] it was moved to the Miturgidae in 2014,[3] and to the Xenoctenidae in 2017.[4]

Paravulsor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Xenoctenidae
Genus: Paravulsor
Mello-Leitão, 1922[1]
Species:
P. impudicus
Binomial name
Paravulsor impudicus

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Paravulsor Mello-Leitão, 1922". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. ^ a b Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1922). "Novas clubionidas do Brasil". Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro. 6: 17–56.
  3. ^ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 342. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
  4. ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.