Prinerigone

Prinerigone
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Linyphiidae
Genus:	Prinerigone Millidge, 1988[1]
Type species
P. vagans (Audouin, 1826)
Species
3, see text

Prinerigone is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1988.[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains three species and one subspecies:[1]

• P. aethiopica (Tullgren, 1910) – Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania
• P. pigra (Blackwall, 1862) – Madeira
• P. vagans (Audouin, 1826) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Middle East to Iran, Central Asia and China. Introduced to Marion Is.
  • P. v. arabica (Jocqué, 1981) – Saudi Arabia

See also

• List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)

References

1. "Gen. Prinerigone Millidge, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
2. Millidge, A. F. (1988). Prinerigone. Genus , gen. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society: 216. p. 7.