Pterotricha Explained

Pterotricha is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1903.^[1]

Species

it contains forty-four species:^[2]

• Pterotricha aethiopica (L. Koch, 1875) – Ethiopia
• Pterotricha algerica Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria, Libya
• Pterotricha arabica Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha arcifera (Simon, 1882) – Yemen
• Pterotricha argentosa Charitonov, 1946 – Uzbekistan
• Pterotricha arzhantsevi Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2018 – Iraq
• Pterotricha auris (Tucker, 1923) – South Africa
• Pterotricha cambridgei (L. Koch, 1872) – Syria, Israel
• Pterotricha chazaliae (Simon, 1895) – Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Israel
• Pterotricha conspersa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Libya, Egypt, Israel
• Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929 – Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iran?
• Pterotricha djibutensis Dalmas, 1921 – Somalia
• Pterotricha egens Denis, 1966 – Libya
• Pterotricha engediensis Levy, 1995 – Israel
• Pterotricha esyunini Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha insolita Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria
• Pterotricha kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel
• Pterotricha kovblyuki Zamani & Marusik, 2018 – United Arab Emirates, Iran
• Pterotricha lentiginosa (C. L. Koch, 1837) (type) – Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
• Pterotricha lesserti Dalmas, 1921 – Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia
• Pterotricha levantina Levy, 1995 – Israel
• Pterotricha linnaei (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt
• Pterotricha lutata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Lebanon, Israel
• Pterotricha marginalis (Tucker, 1923) – South Africa
• Pterotricha mauritanica Denis, 1945 – Mauritania
• Pterotricha montana Zamani & Marusik, 2018 – Iran
• Pterotricha nadolnyi Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha nomas (Thorell, 1875) – Russia (Europe)
• Pterotricha parasyriaca Levy, 1995 – Israel
• Pterotricha paupercula Denis, 1966 – Libya
• Pterotricha pavlovskyi Spassky, 1952 – Tajikistan
• Pterotricha procera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) – Egypt, Israel
• Pterotricha pseudoparasyriaca Nuruyeva & Huseynov, 2016 – Azerbaijan, Iran
• Pterotricha punctifera Dalmas, 1921 – Yemen
• Pterotricha quagga (Pavesi, 1884) – Ethiopia
• Pterotricha saga (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Japan
• Pterotricha schaefferi (Audouin, 1826) – Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Israel
• Pterotricha simoni Dalmas, 1921 – Spain
• Pterotricha sinoniae Caporiacco, 1953 – Italy
• Pterotricha somaliensis Dalmas, 1921 – Somalia
• Pterotricha stevensi Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha strandi Spassky, 1936 – Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India
• Pterotricha syriaca Dalmas, 1921 – Syria
• Pterotricha vicina Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria, Libya

Notes and References

1. Kulczyński. W.. 1903. Aranearum et Opilionum species in insula Creta a comite Dre Carolo Attems collectae.. Bulletin International de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. 32–58. 1903.
2. Gen. Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.