''Phrurotimpus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") 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 (taran ...
spiders first described by
R. V. Chamberlin and
Wilton Ivie
Vaine Wilton Ivie (March 28, 1907 – August 8, 1969) was an American arachnologist, who described hundreds of new species and many new genera of spiders, both under his own name and in collaboration with Ralph Vary Chamberlin. He was employed b ...
in 1935.
The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone".
Originally added to 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 obscur ...
,
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 sm ...
in 2002,
then to the
Phrurolithidae
Phrurolithidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, known as guardstone spiders. The family was first described by Nathan Banks in 1892. First included in the Corinnidae as the subfamily Phrurolithinae, later phylogenetic studies justified a separ ...
in 2014.
They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones.
Species
it contains twenty-six species in
North America
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and
China
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:
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Phrurotimpus abditus''
Gertsch, 1941 – USA
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Phrurotimpus alarius''
(Hentz, 1847) (
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) – USA, Canada
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Phrurotimpus a. tejanus''
(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA, Canada
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Phrurotimpus annulatus''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – USA
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Phrurotimpus baoshanensis''
Mu, Lin & Zhang, 2022 – China
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Phrurotimpus bernikerae''
Platnick, 2019 – USA
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Phrurotimpus borealis''
( Emerton, 1911) – North America
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Phrurotimpus certus''
Gertsch, 1941 – USA, Canada
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Phrurotimpus chamberlini''
Schenkel, 1950 – USA
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Phrurotimpus daliensis''
Mu, Lin & Zhang, 2022 – China
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Phrurotimpus dulcineus''
Gertsch, 1941 – USA, Canada
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Phrurotimpus illudens''
Gertsch, 1941 – USA
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Phrurotimpus lasiolepis''
(Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016) – China
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Phrurotimpus mateonus''
(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
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Phrurotimpus minutus''
(Banks
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As banks ...
, 1892) – USA
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Phrurotimpus mormon''
(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
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Phrurotimpus m. xanthus''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
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Phrurotimpus palustris''
(Banks, 1892) – Canada, USA
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Phrurotimpus parallelus''
(Chamberlin, 1921) – USA
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Phrurotimpus sorkini''
Platnick, 2019 – USA
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Phrurotimpus subtropicus''
Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – USA
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Phrurotimpus truncatus''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
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Phrurotimpus umbratilis''
(Bishop & Crosby, 1926) – USA
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Phrurotimpus wallacei''
(Gertsch, 1935) – USA
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Phrurotimpus woodburyi''
(Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929) – USA, Mexico
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Phrurotimpus w. utanus''
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
References
External links
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Araneomorphae genera
Phrurolithidae
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