Pronous

Pronous
	specimen from Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Pronous ; Keyserling, 1881
Type species
	P. tuberculifer ; Keyserling, 1881
Species
	16, see text
Synonyms
	ZiganaChamberlin & Ivie, 1936;

Last updated August 29, 2025

Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.^[3]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains sixteen species:^[1]

Pronous affinis Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
Pronous beatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
Pronous colon Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
Pronous felipe Levi, 1995 – Mexico
Pronous golfito Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
Pronous intus Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
Pronous lancetilla Levi, 1995 – Honduras
Pronous nigripes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
Pronous pance Levi, 1995 – Colombia
Pronous peje Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
Pronous quintana Levi, 1995 – Mexico
Pronous shanus Levi, 1995 – Panama
Pronous tetralobus Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
Pronous tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Colombia to Argentina
Pronous valle Levi, 1995 – Colombia
Pronous wixoides (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador

References

1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-15.
↑ Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 168.
↑ Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 30: 547–582.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-15.

[Levi1995-2] Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 168.

[Keys1881-3] Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 30: 547–582.

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