Perania Explained

Perania is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Pacullidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.^[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Mirania.^[2]

Species

it contains twenty species, found in Asia:^[3]

• Perania annam Schwendinger & Košulič, 2015 – Vietnam
• Perania armata (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania birmanica (Thorell, 1898) – Myanmar
• Perania cerastes Schwendinger, 1994 – Malaysia
• Perania coryne Schwendinger, 1994 – Malaysia
• Perania deelemanae Schwendinger, 2013 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania egregia Schwendinger, 2013 – Thailand
• Perania ferox Schwendinger, 2013 – Thailand
• Perania harau Schwendinger, 2013 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania korinchica Hogg, 1919 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania nasicornis Schwendinger, 1994 – Thailand
• Perania nasuta Schwendinger, 1989 – Thailand
• Perania nigra (Thorell, 1890) (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania picea (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania quadrifurcata Schwendinger, 2013 – Thailand
• Perania robusta Schwendinger, 1989 – China, Thailand
• Perania selatan Schwendinger, 2013 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Perania siamensis Schwendinger, 1994 – Thailand
• Perania tumida Schwendinger, 2013 – Thailand
• Perania utara Schwendinger, 2013 – Indonesia (Sumatra)

See also

• List of Pacullidae species

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1890. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 5–421. 28. Tamerlan_Thorell.
2. Schwendinger. P. J.. 1989. On three new armoured spiders (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae, Pacullinae) from Indonesia and Thailand. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 96. 579. 10.5962/bhl.part.82047. free.
3. Gen. Perania Thorell, 1890. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-10-17. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.