Priscula

Priscula is a genus of South American cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[4]

Priscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Priscula
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
P. gularis
Simon, 1893
Species

17, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only in South America:[1]

  • Priscula andinensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula annulipes (Keyserling, 1877) – Colombia
  • Priscula binghamae (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
  • Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula gularis Simon, 1893 (type) – Ecuador
  • Priscula huila Huber, 2000 – Colombia
  • Priscula lagunosa González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula limonensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula paeza Huber, 2000 – Colombia
  • Priscula pallisteri Huber, 2000 – Peru
  • Priscula piapoco Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
  • Priscula piedraensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula salmeronica González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula taruma Huber, 2000 – Guyana
  • Priscula tunebo Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
  • Priscula ulai González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
  • Priscula venezuelana Simon, 1893 – Venezuela

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Priscula Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 128.
  3. Huber, B. A. (1997). "Redescriptions of Eugène Simon's neotropical pholcids (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoosystema. 19: 595.
  4. Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1, . <a href='https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51973'>doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973</a>. pp. 257–488.


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