Pterotricha

Pterotricha is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1903.^[2]

Pterotricha
P. arabica
P. simoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Gnaphosidae
Genus:	Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903[1]
Type species
P. lentiginosa (C. L. Koch, 1837)
Species
39, see text

Species

• 
  male P. saga
• 
  P. strandi

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes 39 species:^[1]

• Pterotricha algerica Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria, Libya
• Pterotricha arabica Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha argentosa Charitonov, 1946 – Uzbekistan
• Pterotricha arzhantsevi Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2018 – Iraq
• Pterotricha auris (Tucker, 1923) – Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho
• Pterotricha cambridgei (L. Koch, 1872) – Syria, Israel
• Pterotricha chazaliae (Simon, 1895) – Portugal, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Israel
• Pterotricha conspersa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Libya, Egypt, Israel
• Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929 – Algeria, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran
• Pterotricha djibutensis Dalmas, 1921 – Somalia
• Pterotricha egens Denis, 1966 – Libya
• Pterotricha engediensis Levy, 1995 – Israel
• Pterotricha esyunini Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates, Iraq
• Pterotricha insolita Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria
• Pterotricha kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel
• Pterotricha kovblyuki Zamani & Marusik, 2018 – United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran
• Pterotricha lentiginosa (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Montenegro, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey (type species)
• Pterotricha lesserti Dalmas, 1921 – Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia
• Pterotricha levantina Levy, 1995 – Israel
• 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 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran
• Pterotricha quagga (Pavesi, 1884) – Tunisia
• Pterotricha saga (Dönitz & Strand, 1906) – Japan
• Pterotricha schaefferi (Audouin, 1826) – Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Cyprus, Israel
• Pterotricha simoni Dalmas, 1921 – Portugal, Spain
• Pterotricha somaliensis Dalmas, 1921 – Somalia
• Pterotricha stevensi Zamani, 2018 – United Arab Emirates
• Pterotricha strandi Spassky, 1936 – Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India
• Pterotricha syriaca Dalmas, 1921 – Syria
• Pterotricha vicina Dalmas, 1921 – Algeria, Libya