Tricongius

Tricongius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Prodidomidae
Genus:	Tricongius Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
T. collinus Simon, 1893
Species
T. amazonicus Platnick & Höfer, 1990 – Brazil T. collinus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela T. granadensis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia

Tricongius is a genus of South American long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[2]

Species

As of August 2022^[update] it contains seven species:[1]

• Tricongius amazonicus Platnick & Höfer, 1990 – Brazil
• Tricongius beltraoae (Brescovit & Ramos, 2003) – Brazil
• Tricongius collinus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
• Tricongius granadensis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
• Tricongius mutilatus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) – Argentina
• Tricongius ribaslangei (Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1997) – Brazil
• Tricongius ybyguara (Rheims & Brescovit, 2004) – Brazil

See also

• List of Prodidominae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Tricongius Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.