Propostira

Propostira
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Propostira; Simon, 1894
Type species
	P. quadrangulata; Simon, 1894
Species
	P. quadrangulata Simon, 1894 – India, Sri Lanka ; P. ranii Bhattacharya, 1935 – India;

Propostira is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.^[2] As of June 2020^[update] it contains two species, found in Sri Lanka and India: P. quadrangulata and P. ranii.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Propostira Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
^ Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 1–71.
Bhattacharya, G. C. (1935). "A new spider of Bengal, mimicking Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabr.)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 37: 960–962.
Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.

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