Prinerigone

Prinerigone
P. vagans
P. vagans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Prinerigone Millidge, 1988 [1]
Type species
P. vagans (Audouin, 1826)
Species
3, see text

Prinerigone is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1988. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes three species and one subspecies: ^[1]

• Prinerigone aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania
• Prinerigone pigra (Blackwall, 1862) – Madeira
• Prinerigone vagans (Audouin, 1826) – Azores, Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, India, China. Introduced to Marion Is. Hawaii (type species)
  • P. v. arabica (Jocqué, 1981) – Saudi Arabia

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Prinerigone Millidge, 1988". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-18.
2. Millidge, A. F. (1988). Prinerigone. Genus, gen. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society: 216. p. 7.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Prinerigone at iNaturalist