Petrichus is a genus of South American running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Philodromidae |
| Genus: | Petrichus Simon, 1886[1] |
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| P. marmoratus Simon, 1886
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Species edit
As of May 2022[update] it contains fourteen species, found in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Colombia and on the Falkland Islands:[1]
- Petrichus anomalus (Mello-Leitão, 1938) – Argentina
- Petrichus eremicus Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile
- Petrichus funebris (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus griseus Berland, 1913 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Petrichus junior (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus marmoratus Simon, 1886 (type) – Argentina
- Petrichus meridionalis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
- Petrichus niveus (Simon, 1895) – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
- Petrichus patagoniensis Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
- Petrichus roijunenti Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus sordidus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina
- Petrichus spira Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
- Petrichus tobioides Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
- Petrichus tullgreni Simon, 1902 – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Petrichus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
- ^ Simon, E. (1886). "Arachnides recueillis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 11: 558–577.