Pararaneus Explained

Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.^[1]

Species

it contains five species:^[2]

• Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra
• Pararaneus perforatus (Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa
• Pararaneus pseudostriatus (Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa
• Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East
• Pararaneus uncivulva (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar

Notes and References

1. Caporiacco. L. di. 1940. Alcuni aracnidi di Somalia.. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 295–305. 31.
2. Gen. Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-14. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.