Phrurotimpus

Phrurotimpus
Phrurotimpus alarius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Phrurolithidae
Genus:	Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935[1]
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.[2] The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone".[3] Originally added to the Liocranidae,[2] it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,[4] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[5] They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones.[6]

Species

As of December 2022^[update] it contains twenty-six species in North America and China:[1]

• Phrurotimpus abditus Gertsch, 1941 – USA
• Phrurotimpus alarius (Hentz, 1847) (type) – USA, Canada
  • Phrurotimpus a. tejanus (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA, Canada
• Phrurotimpus annulatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – USA
• Phrurotimpus baoshanensis Mu, Lin & Zhang, 2022 – China
• Phrurotimpus bernikerae Platnick, 2019 – USA
• Phrurotimpus borealis (Emerton, 1911) – North America
• Phrurotimpus certus Gertsch, 1941 – USA, Canada
• Phrurotimpus chamberlini Schenkel, 1950 – USA
• Phrurotimpus daliensis Mu, Lin & Zhang, 2022 – China
• Phrurotimpus dulcineus Gertsch, 1941 – USA, Canada
• Phrurotimpus illudens Gertsch, 1941 – USA
• Phrurotimpus lasiolepis (Fu, Chen & Zhang, 2016) – China
• Phrurotimpus mateonus (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
• Phrurotimpus minutus (Banks, 1892) – USA
• Phrurotimpus mormon (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
  • Phrurotimpus m. xanthus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Phrurotimpus palustris (Banks, 1892) – Canada, USA
• Phrurotimpus parallelus (Chamberlin, 1921) – USA
• Phrurotimpus sorkini Platnick, 2019 – USA
• Phrurotimpus subtropicus Ivie & Barrows, 1935 – USA
• Phrurotimpus truncatus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA
• Phrurotimpus umbratilis (Bishop & Crosby, 1926) – USA
• Phrurotimpus wallacei (Gertsch, 1935) – USA
• Phrurotimpus woodburyi (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929) – USA, Mexico
  • Phrurotimpus w. utanus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 – USA

References

1. "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. 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.

External links

• Media related to Phrurotimpus at Wikimedia Commons