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Phruronellus
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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)
Species

5, see text

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

As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in the United States: [1]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.