Pisenor Explained

Pisenor is a genus of African brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species:^[2]

• Pisenor arcturus (Tucker, 1917) – Zimbabwe
• Pisenor leleupi (Benoit, 1965) – Congo
• Pisenor lepidus (Gerstäcker, 1873) – Tanzania
• Pisenor macequece (Tucker, 1920) – Mozambique
• Pisenor notius Simon, 1889 (type) – Ethiopia to Zimbabwe
• Pisenor plicatus (Benoit, 1965) – Rwanda
• Pisenor selindanus (Benoit, 1965) – Zimbabwe
• Pisenor tenuistylus (Benoit, 1965) – Congo
• Pisenor upembanus (Roewer, 1953) – Congo

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1889. Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae.. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. 405–415. 42.
2. Gen. Pisenor Simon, 1889. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-17. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.