Perenethis

Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.[3]

Perenethis
P. venusta, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Perenethis
L. Koch, 1878[1]
Type species
P. venusta
L. Koch, 1878
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:[1]

  • Perenethis dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan or India
  • Perenethis fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
  • Perenethis simoni (Lessert, 1916) – Africa, Comoros
  • Perenethis sindica (Simon, 1897) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
  • Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) – Africa
  • Perenethis venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
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gollark: I'm fairly sure it has very variable brightness.
gollark: ... probably, but don't go there.
gollark: If you can get past that, the other stuff is probably minør.
gollark: I wouldn't worry about it being poisonous. The main issue is the low pressure and lack of oxygen.

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Perenethis L. Koch, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Sierwald, P. (1997). "Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae)". Journal of Arachnology. 25: 395.
  3. Koch, L. (1878). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 969–1044.


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