Perania

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Perania

| authority = Thorell, 1890

| type_species = P. nigra

| type_species_authority = (Thorell, 1890)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 20, see text

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Perania is a genus of Asian araneomorph spiders in the family Pacullidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1890| title=Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=5–421| volume=28| author-link=Tamerlan_Thorell}} It is considered a senior synonym of Mirania.{{cite journal| last=Schwendinger| first=P. J.| year=1989| title=On three new armoured spiders (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae, Pacullinae) from Indonesia and Thailand| journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie| volume=96| page=579| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.82047| doi-access=free}}

Species

{{as of|2019|09}} it contains twenty species, found in Asia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Perania Thorell, 1890| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-17| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3261| doi=10.24436/2}}

See also

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