Phruronellus
| Phruronellus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Phrurolithidae |
| Genus: | Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. formica (Banks, 1895)
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Phruronellus is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1921.[2] Originally placed with the Liocranidae,[2] it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,[3] and to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[4]
Species[edit]
As of April 2019[update] it contains five species, all found in the United States:[1]
- Phruronellus californicus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus floridae Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus formica (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA
- Phruronellus formidabilis Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus pictus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ a b Chamberlin, R. V. (1921). "A new genus and a new species of spiders in the group Phrurolitheae". The Canadian Entomologist. 53 (3): 69–70. doi:10.4039/Ent5369-3. S2CID 84513559.
- ^ Bosselaers, J.; Jocqué, R. (2002). "Studies in Corinnidae: cladistic analysis of 38 corinnid and liocranid genera, and transfer of Phrurolithinae". Zoologica Scripta. 31 (3): 265. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2002.00080.x. S2CID 83947168.
- ^ Ramírez, M. J. (2014). "The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 390: 343. doi:10.1206/821.1. hdl:11336/18066. S2CID 86146467.
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