Phonotimpus is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders in the family Phrurolithidae. It was first described by Willis J. Gertsch and Louie Irby Davis in 1940, and placed with the Liocranidae.[2] It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002,[3] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[4]

Phonotimpus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Phonotimpus
Gertsch & Davis, 1940[1]
Type species
P. separatus
Gertsch & Davis, 1940
Species

32, see text

Species

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As of December 2022 it contains thirty-two species, all found in Mexico:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Phonotimpus Gertsch & Davis, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 23.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  2. ^ Gertsch, W. J.; Davis, L. I. (1940). "Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. III". American Museum Novitates (1069): 1–22.
  3. ^ Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2002). "Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (3): 265. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. S2CID 83947168.
  4. ^ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.