Pronous

This article is about spiders. For characters in Greek mythology, see Pronous (mythology).

Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.^[3]

Pronous
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Pronous Keyserling, 1881^[1]
Type species
P. tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881
Species
16, see text
Synonyms^[1]
Zigana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936^[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains sixteen species:^[1]

• Pronous affinis Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Pronous beatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Pronous colon Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
• Pronous felipe Levi, 1995 – Mexico
• Pronous golfito Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
• Pronous intus Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
• Pronous lancetilla Levi, 1995 – Honduras
• Pronous nigripes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Pronous pance Levi, 1995 – Colombia
• Pronous peje Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
• Pronous quintana Levi, 1995 – Mexico
• Pronous shanus Levi, 1995 – Panama
• Pronous tetralobus Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
• Pronous tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Colombia to Argentina
• Pronous valle Levi, 1995 – Colombia
• Pronous wixoides (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
2. Levi, H. W. (1995). "Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 168.
3. Keyserling, E. (1881). "Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 30: 547–582.