Pararaneus

Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.^[2]

Pararaneus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940[1]
Type species
P. cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898)
Species
5, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains five species:^[1]

• 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