Prinerigone

Prinerigone is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1988.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only three species and one subspecies, found in Europe, on the Prince Edward Islands, and the Madeira Archipelago: P. aethiopica, P. pigra, P. vagans, and P. v. arabica.[1]

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

See also

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.


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