Prodidomus

Prodidomus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Prodidomus Hentz, 1847[1]
Type species
P. rufus Hentz, 1847
Species
53, see text
Synonyms[1]
Hyltonia Birabén, 1954[2]

Prodidomus is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1847.[3]

Species

As of August 2022^[update] it contains fifty-fivespecies, found in Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, the United States, on the Greater Antilles, and Saint Helena:[1]

• Prodidomus amaranthinus (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
• Prodidomus aurantiacus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
• Prodidomus beattyi Platnick, 1977 – Australia
• Prodidomus bendee Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus bicolor Denis, 1957 – Sudan
• Prodidomus birmanicus Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
• Prodidomus bryantae Alayón, 1995 – Cuba
• Prodidomus capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Prodidomus chaperi (Simon, 1884) – India
• Prodidomus clarki Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Island
• Prodidomus dalmasi Berland, 1920 – Kenya
• Prodidomus djibutensis Dalmas, 1919 – Somalia
• Prodidomus domesticus Lessert, 1938 – Congo
• Prodidomus duffeyi Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Island
• Prodidomus flavidus (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
• Prodidomus flavipes Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
• Prodidomus flavus Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus geniculosus Dalmas, 1919 – Tunisia
• Prodidomus granulosus Cooke, 1964 – Rwanda
• Prodidomus hispanicus Dalmas, 1919 – Spain, Greece
• Prodidomus inexpectatus Zamani, Chatzaki, Esyunin & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
• Prodidomus kimberley Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus lampeli Cooke, 1964 – Ethiopia
• Prodidomus latebricola Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
• Prodidomus longiventris (Dalmas, 1919) – Philippines
• Prodidomus margala Platnick, 1976 – Pakistan
• Prodidomus maximus Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
• Prodidomus nigellus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
• Prodidomus nigricaudus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Prodidomus opacithorax Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Prodidomus palkai Cooke, 1972 – India
• Prodidomus papavanasanemensis Cooke, 1972 – India
• Prodidomus purpurascens Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
• Prodidomus purpureus Simon, 1907 – West Africa
• Prodidomus redikorzevi Spassky, 1940 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
• Prodidomus reticulatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Prodidomus revocatus Cooke, 1964 – Mauritius
• Prodidomus robustus Dalmas, 1919 – Ethiopia
• Prodidomus rodolphianus Dalmas, 1919 – East Africa
• Prodidomus rollasoni Cooke, 1964 – Libya
• Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1847 – Israel, China, Japan, New Caledonia, USA, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, St. Helena
• Prodidomus saharanpurensis (Tikader, 1982) – India
• Prodidomus sampeyae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus seemani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus simoni Dalmas, 1919 – South Africa
• Prodidomus singulus Suman, 1967 – Hawaii
• Prodidomus sirohi Platnick, 1976 – India
• Prodidomus stella (Saaristo, 2002) – Seychelles
• Prodidomus tigrinus Dalmas, 1919 – West Africa
• Prodidomus tirumalai Cooke, 1972 – India
• Prodidomus venkateswarai Cooke, 1972 – India
• Prodidomus watongwensis Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
• Prodidomus woodleigh Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
• Prodidomus wunderlichi Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
• Prodidomus yorke Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia

See also

• List of Prodidominae species

References

1. "Gen. Prodidomus Hentz, 1847". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Platnick, N. I.; Baehr, B. (2006). "A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 298: 9. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2.
3. Hentz, N. M. (1847). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. 5: 443–478.