Pararaneus
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pararaneus
| authority = Caporiacco, 1940
| type_species = P. cyrtoscapus
| type_species_authority = (Pocock, 1898)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 5, see text
}}
Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.{{cite journal| last=Caporiacco| first=L. di| year=1940| title=Alcuni aracnidi di Somalia.| journal=Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici| pages=295–305| volume=31}}
Species
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains five species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-14| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/375| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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
References
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