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

Pronous
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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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.