Pisaurina Dubia
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''Pisaurina'' is a
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of nursery web spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.


Species

it contains four species, found only in Canada, the United States, and on the
Greater Antilles The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, together with Navassa Island and the Cayman Islands. Seven island states share the region of the Greater Antille ...
: *'' Pisaurina brevipes'' ( Emerton, 1911) – USA, Canada *'' Pisaurina dubia'' ( Hentz, 1847) – USA *''
Pisaurina mira ''Pisaurina mira'', also known as the American nursery web spider, due to the web it raises young in, is a species of spider in the family Pisauridae. They are often mistaken for wolf spiders (Wolf spider, Lycosidae) due to their physical resembl ...
'' (Walckenaer, 1837) (
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) – USA, Canada *'' Pisaurina undulata'' (
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, 1887)
– USA, Cuba


See also

*
List of Pisauridae species This article lists all described species of the spider family Pisauridae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : A ''Afropisaura'' '' Afropisaura'' Blandin, 1976 * '' A. ducis'' (Strand, 1913) — West, Central, East Africa * '' A. rothiformis'' ...


References

Araneomorphae genera Pisauridae Spiders of North America {{Pisauridae-stub