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Prothemenops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991
Type species
P. siamensis Schwendinger, 1991
Species
4, see text

Prothemenops is a genus of Southeast Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Peter J. Schwendinger in 1991.

Species

As of May 2019 it contains four species from Thailand, and at least a dozen more suspected species found in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia:

• Prothemenops irineae Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
• Prothemenops khirikhan Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
• Prothemenops phanthurat Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, 2014 – Thailand
• Prothemenops siamensis Schwendinger, 1991 (type) – Thailand

See also

• List of Idiopidae species

References

1. ^ "Gen. Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
2. Schwendinger, P. J. (1991). "Two new trap-door spiders from Thailand (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 8: 233–240.
3. Schwendinger, P. J.; Hongpadharakiree, K. (2014). "Three new Prothemenops species (Araneae: Idiopidae) from central Thailand". Zootaxa. 3893 (4): 530–550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3893.4.3. PMID 25544536.

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