Prodidomus

Prodidomus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1847.[3]

Prodidomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Subfamily: Prodidominae
Genus: Prodidomus
Hentz, 1847[1]
Type species
P. rufus
Hentz, 1847
Species

53, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Hyltonia Birabén, 1954[2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains fifty-three species, found in Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, the United States, on the Greater Antilles, and Saint Helena:[1]

  • P. amaranthinus (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
  • P. aurantiacus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
  • P. beattyi Platnick, 1977 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
  • P. bendee Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • P. bicolor Denis, 1957 – Sudan
  • P. birmanicus Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
  • P. bryantae Alayón, 1995 – Cuba
  • P. capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • P. chaperi (Simon, 1884) – India
  • P. clarki Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Is.
  • P. dalmasi Berland, 1920 – Kenya
  • P. djibutensis Dalmas, 1919 – Somalia
  • P. domesticus Lessert, 1938 – Congo
  • P. duffeyi Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Is.
  • P. flavidus (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
  • P. flavipes Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
  • P. flavus Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • P. geniculosus Dalmas, 1919 – Tunisia
  • P. granulosus Cooke, 1964 – Rwanda
  • P. hispanicus Dalmas, 1919 – Spain, Greece
  • P. kimberley Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
  • P. lampei Strand, 1915 – Namibia
  • P. lampeli Cooke, 1964 – Ethiopia
  • P. latebricola Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
  • P. margala Platnick, 1976 – Pakistan
  • P. maximus Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
  • P. nigellus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
  • P. nigricaudus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
  • P. opacithorax Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
  • P. palkai Cooke, 1972 – India
  • P. papavanasanemensis Cooke, 1972 – India
  • P. purpurascens Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • P. purpureus Simon, 1907 – West Africa
  • P. redikorzevi Spassky, 1940 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
  • P. reticulatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • P. revocatus Cooke, 1964 – Mauritius
  • P. robustus Dalmas, 1919 – Ethiopia
  • P. rodolphianus Dalmas, 1919 – East Africa
  • P. rollasoni Cooke, 1964 – Libya
  • P. rufus Hentz, 1847 (type) – Israel, China, Japan, New Caledonia, USA, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, St. Helena
  • P. saharanpurensis (Tikader, 1982) – India
  • P. sampeyi Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • P. seemani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)
  • P. simoni Dalmas, 1919 – South Africa
  • P. singulus Suman, 1967 – Hawaii
  • P. sirohi Platnick, 1976 – India
  • P. tigrinus Dalmas, 1919 – West Africa
  • P. tirumalai Cooke, 1972 – India
  • P. venkateswarai Cooke, 1972 – India
  • P. watongwensis Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
  • P. woodleigh Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • P. wunderlichi Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
  • P. yorke Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia (Queensland)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Prodidomus Hentz, 1847". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 9. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2</a>.
  3. Hentz, N. M. (1847). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. 5: 443–478.


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