Propostira

Genus of spiders

Propostira

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Theridiidae
Genus:  | Propostira
Simon, 1894[1]
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]

## See also

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* List of Theridiidae species

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

## Further reading

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* 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.

Taxon identifiers

Propostira|

* Wikidata: Q5252949
* Wikispecies: Propostira
* ADW: Propostira
* BioLib: 468109
* CoL: 6WYD
* EoL: 112085
* GBIF: 2156273
* iNaturalist: 419557
* IRMNG: 1341207
* ITIS: 849201
* Open Tree of Life: 3564153
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00714

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