Perenethis

Perenethis is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1878.^[3]

Perenethis
P. venusta, male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pisauridae
Genus:	Perenethis L. Koch, 1878[1]
Type species
P. venusta L. Koch, 1878
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Pisaurellus Roewer, 1961[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains six species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:^[1]

• 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