Prothemenops is a genus of Southeast Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Peter J. Schwendinger in 1991.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991[1] |
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| P. siamensis Schwendinger, 1991
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Species
editAs of May 2019[update] it contains four species from Thailand,[1] and at least a dozen more suspected species found in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia:[3]
- Prothemenops irineae Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
- Prothemenops khirikhan Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
- Prothemenops phanthurat Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
- Prothemenops siamensis Schwendinger, 1991 (type) – Thailand
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Schwendinger, P. J. (1991). "Two new trap-door spiders from Thailand (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 8: 233–240.
- ^ Schwendinger, P. J.; Hongpadharakiree, K. (2014). "Three new Prothemenops species (Araneae: Idiopidae) from central Thailand". Zootaxa. 3893 (4): 530–550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3893.4.3. PMID 25544536.