Prothemenops

Prothemenops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Prothemenops Schwendinger, 1991[1]
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.[2]

Species

As of May 2019^[update] it contains four species from Thailand,[1] and at least a dozen more suspected species found in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia:[3]

• 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.