Phrurotimpus

Phrurotimpus
Phrurotimpus alarius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Phrurolithidae
Genus: Phrurotimpus
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935
Type species
P. alarius
(Hentz, 1847)
Species

26, see text

Phrurotimpus is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie in 1935. The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone". Originally added to the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002, then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014. They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones.

Species

As of December 2022 it contains twenty-six species in North America and China:

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  2. 1 2 Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1935). "Miscellaneous new American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 26 (4): 1–79.
  3. ↑ Platnick, Norman (2020). Spiders of the World: A Natural History. Ivy Press. p. 230. ISBN 9781782407508.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Genus Phrurotimpus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-05-22.