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