Prusias (spider)

Short description: Genus of spiders

Prusias

Scientific classification
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[update] it contains four species, found in Peru, Brazil , Panama, and Mexico:[1]

* Prusias brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1915 – Brazil
* 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

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