| Phruronellus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Phrurolithidae |
| Genus: | Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921 |
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| P. formica (Banks, 1895) | |
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Phruronellus is a genus of North American araneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1921. Originally placed with the Liocranidae, it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002, and to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.
Species
As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in the United States:
- Phruronellus californicus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus floridae Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus formica (Banks, 1895) (type) – USA
- Phruronellus formidabilis Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
- Phruronellus pictus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930 – USA
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Phruronellus Chamberlin, 1921". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
- ^ Chamberlin, R. V. (1921). "A new genus and a new species of spiders in the group Phrurolitheae". The Canadian Entomologist. 53 (3): 69–70. doi:10.4039/Ent5369-3. S2CID 84513559.
- 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.
- 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.
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