Phrurolithus is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by C. L. Koch in 1839.[2] First placed with the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,[3] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[4]

Phrurolithus
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
Phrurolithus sp.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Phrurolithus
C. L. Koch, 1839[1]
Type species
P. festivus
(C. L. Koch, 1835)
Species

57, see text

Species

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As of December 2021 it contains fifty-seven species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Phrurolithus C. L. Koch, 1839". World Spider Catalog Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. ^ Koch, C. L. (1839). Die Arachniden.
  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): 241–270. 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.
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