''Pronous'' is a
genus
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of South American and African
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugen von Keyserling
Eugen von Keyserling (22 March 1833 in Pockroy, Lithuania – 4 April 1889 in Dzierżoniów, Silesia
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in 1881.
Species
it contains sixteen species:
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Pronous affinis''
Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1901 – Malaysia
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Pronous beatus''
( O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
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Pronous colon''
Levi
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, 1995 – Costa Rica
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Pronous felipe''
Levi, 1995 – Mexico
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Pronous golfito''
Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
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Pronous intus''
Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
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Pronous lancetilla''
Levi, 1995 – Honduras
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Pronous nigripes''
Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
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Pronous pance''
Levi, 1995 – Colombia
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Pronous peje''
Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
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Pronous quintana''
Levi, 1995 – Mexico
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Pronous shanus''
Levi, 1995 – Panama
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Pronous tetralobus''
Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
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Pronous tuberculifer''
Keyserling, 1881 (
type
Type may refer to:
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* Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc.
* Data type, collection of values used for computations.
* File type
* TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file.
* ...
) – Colombia to Argentina
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Pronous valle''
Levi, 1995 – Colombia
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Pronous wixoides''
(Chamberlin
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& Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Madagascar
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling
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