Pronous

This article is about spiders. For characters in Greek mythology, see Pronous (mythology).

Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.^[3]

Pronous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Pronous Keyserling, 1881[1]
Type species
P. tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881
Species
16, see text
Synonyms[1]
Zigana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936[2]

Species

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

• Pronous affinis Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Pronous beatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Pronous colon Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
• Pronous felipe Levi, 1995 – Mexico
• Pronous golfito Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica
• Pronous intus Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica to Brazil
• Pronous lancetilla Levi, 1995 – Honduras
• Pronous nigripes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Pronous pance Levi, 1995 – Colombia
• Pronous peje Levi, 1995 – Costa Rica, Panama
• Pronous quintana Levi, 1995 – Mexico
• Pronous shanus Levi, 1995 – Panama
• Pronous tetralobus Simon, 1895 – Madagascar
• Pronous tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 (type) – Colombia to Argentina
• Pronous valle Levi, 1995 – Colombia
• Pronous wixoides (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador