Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.[3]
| Perenethis | |
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| P. venusta, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Perenethis L. Koch, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. venusta L. Koch, 1878
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| Species | |
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6, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of June 2019[update] it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:[1]
- Perenethis dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan or India
- Perenethis fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
- Perenethis simoni (Lessert, 1916) – Africa, Comoros
- Perenethis sindica (Simon, 1897) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
- Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) – Africa
- Perenethis venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Perenethis L. Koch, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Sierwald, P. (1997). "Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae)". Journal of Arachnology. 25: 395.
- ^ Koch, L. (1878). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 969–1044.