Prusias (Spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prusias
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Prusias
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892[1]
Type species
P. nugalis
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892
Species

4, see text

Prusias is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1892.[2]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains four species, found in Peru, Brazil , Panama, and Mexico:[1]

  • Prusias brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1915Brazil
  • Prusias lanceolatus Simon, 1897 – Brazil or Peru
  • Prusias nugalis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892 (type) – Mexico, Panama
  • Prusias semotus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892) – Panama

See also

  • List of Sparassidae species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Prusias O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3143. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1892), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 

Wikidata ☰ Q3408667 entry




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