Perenethis Explained

Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.^[1]

Species

it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:^[2]

• Perenethis dentifasciata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Pakistan or India
• Perenethis fascigera (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – China, Korea, Japan
• Perenethis simoni (Lessert, 1916) – Africa, Comoros
• Perenethis sindica (Simon, 1897) – India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Philippines
• Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927) – Africa
• Perenethis venusta L. Koch, 1878 (type) – India, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)

See also

• List of Pisauridae species

Notes and References

1. Book: Koch, L.. 1878. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. 969–1044. Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.
2. Gen. Perenethis L. Koch, 1878. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.