Parasyrisca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Parasyrisca
Schenkel, 1963[1]
Type species
P. potanini
Schenkel, 1963
Species

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Parasyrisca is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by E. Schenkel in 1963.[2] Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the Miturgidae in 1967,[3] then to the ground spiders in 1988.[4]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fifty-four species found throughout Europe to far eastern Asia, with the exception of P. orites, found in the United States and Canada:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Parasyrisca Schenkel, 1963". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  2. ^ Schenkel, E. (1963). "Ostasiatische Spinnen aus dem Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 25 (A, Zool): 1–481.
  3. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 256.
  4. ^ Ovtsharenko, V. I.; Marusik, Y. M. (1988). "Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province)". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 67: 214.