Prodidomus

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Prodidomus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidominae
Genus: Prodidomus
Hentz, 1847 [1]
Type species
P. rufus
Hentz, 1847
Species

53, see text

Synonyms [1]
  • HyltoniaBirabén, 1954 [2]

Prodidomus is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1847. [3]

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Species

As of August 2022 it contains fifty-fivespecies, found in Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, the United States, on the Greater Antilles, and Saint Helena: [1]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Prodidomus Hentz, 1847". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 9. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
  3. Hentz, N. M. (1847). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. 5: 443–478.