Phrurotimpus

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Phrurotimpus
Phrurotimpus alarius.jpg
Phrurotimpus alarius
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Phrurotimpus
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 [1]
Type species
P. alarius
(Hentz, 1847)
Species

26, see text

Phrurotimpus is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie in 1935. [2] The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone". [3] Originally added to the Liocranidae, [2] it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002, [4] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014. [5] They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones. [6]

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Species

As of December 2022 it contains twenty-six species in North America and China: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  2. 1 2 Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1935). "Miscellaneous new American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 26 (4): 1–79.
  3. Platnick, Norman (2020). Spiders of the World: A Natural History. Ivy Press. p. 230. ISBN   9781782407508.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. "Genus Phrurotimpus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-22.