Biology:Prinerigone

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prinerigone
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Prinerigone
Millidge, 1988[1]
Type species
P. vagans
(Audouin, 1826)
Species

3, see text

Prinerigone is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1988.[2]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains three species and one subspecies:[1]

  • P. aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania
  • P. pigra (Blackwall, 1862) – Madeira
  • P. vagans (Audouin, 1826) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Middle East to Iran, Central Asia and China. Introduced to Marion Is.
    • P. v. arabica (Jocqué, 1981) – Saudi Arabia

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Prinerigone Millidge, 1988. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1565. Retrieved 2019-06-23. 
  2. Millidge, A. F. (1988). Prinerigone. Genus , gen. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society: 216. pp. 7. 

Wikidata ☰ Q428477 entry