Priscula

Priscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Priscula; Simon, 1893
Type species
	P. gularis; Simon, 1893
Species
	20, see text
Synonyms
	Blechroscelis Simon, 1893; Hypsorinus Chamberlin, 1916;

Priscula is a genus of South American cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.

Species

As of April 2022^[update] it contains 20 species, found only in South America:

1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Priscula Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
↑ Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 128. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2.
↑ Huber, B. A. (1997). "Redescriptions of Eugène Simon's neotropical pholcids (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoosystema. 19 (4): 595. doi:10.5962/p.268855.
↑ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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