''Phrurolithus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their cl ...

spiders first described by

C. L. Koch Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born ...

in 1839. First placed with the

Liocranidae Liocranidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. They are one of several groups called "sac spiders". The holarctic genus ''Agroeca'' is the best-known, but it also includes various genera of more obscure s ...

, it was moved to the

Corinnidae Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much sma ...

in 2002, then to the

Phrurolithidae Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separate family. Genera , the World Spider Catal ...

in 2014.

Species

it contains fifty-seven species: *'' P. absurdus''

Gertsch Willis John Gertsch (October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1998) was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider. Gertsch was born ...

, 1941 – USA *'' P. adjacens'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. aemulatus'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. alatus''

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& Barrows, 1935 – USA *'' P. apacheus'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. apertus'' Gertsch, 1935 – USA *'' P. approximatus'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. azarkinae'' Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran *'' P. banksi'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. callidus'' Gertsch, 1935 – USA *'' P. camawhitae'' Gertsch, 1935 – USA *'' P. catalinius'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. claripes'' (Dönitz &

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, 1906) – China, Russia (Sakhalin), Taiwan, Japan *'' P. coahuilanus'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. concisus'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. connectus'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. corsicus'' (

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, 1878) – Spain, France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia) to Romania *'' P. debilis'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. diversus'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. dolius''

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& Ivie, 1935 – USA *'' P. duncani'' (Chamberlin, 1925) – USA *'' P. emertoni'' Gertsch, 1935 – USA *'' P. festivus'' (C. L. Koch, 1835) (

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) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to Canada *'' P. flavipes''

O. Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and work Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...

, 1872 – Lebanon, Israel *'' P. florentinus''

Caporiacco Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist. Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On t ...

, 1923 – Italy *'' P. goodnighti'' Muma, 1945 – USA *'' P. hamdeokensis'' Seo, 1988 – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), Korea *'' P. kastoni'' Schenkel, 1950 – USA *'' P. kentuckyensis'' Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA *'' P. labialis'' Paik, 1991 – Korea, Japan *'' P. lasiolepis'' Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016 – China *'' P. leviculus'' Gertsch, 1936 – USA *'' P. lindemanni'' Marusik, Omelko & Koponen, 2020 – Russia (Far East) *'' P. luppovae'' Spassky, 1941 – Tajikistan *'' P. minimus'' C. L. Koch, 1839 – Europe *'' P. nemoralis'' Bryant, 1940 – Cuba *'' P. nigrinus'' (Simon, 1878) – Central and southern Europe *'' P. nipponicus''

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, 1914 – Japan *'' P. oabus'' Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA *'' P. paludivagus'' Bishop & Crosby, 1926 – USA *'' P. parcus'' (

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, 1847) – USA *'' P. pennatoides'' Seo, 2018 – Korea *'' P. pinturus'' Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – USA *'' P. pipensis'' Muma, 1945 – USA *'' P. pullatus''

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, 1897 – Central to Eastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia *'' P. pygmaeus'' Thorell, 1875 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe) *'' P. schwarzi'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. shimenensis'' Yin, Peng, Gong & Kim, 1997 – China *'' P. similis''

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, 1895 – USA *'' P. singulus'' Gertsch, 1941 – USA *'' P. sinicus'' Zhu & Mei, 1982 – Russia (South Siberia, Far East), China, Korea, Japan *'' P. sordidus'' Savelyeva, 1972 – Kazakhstan *'' P. spinosus'' Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola *'' P. szilyi'' Herman, 1879 – Portugal, Spain, Central to south-eastern Europe *'' P. tamaulipanus'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. tepejicanus'' Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *'' P. thracia'' Komnenov & Chatzaki, 2016 – Greece, Turkey

References

External links

* Araneomorphae genera Phrurolithidae {{Araneomorphae-stub