Pronous

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pronous

| authority = Keyserling, 1881

| type_species = P. tuberculifer

| type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1881

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 16, see text

| synonyms =

Zigana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1995| title=Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=154| page=168}}

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Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.{{cite journal| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1881| title=Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II.| journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien| pages=547–582| volume=30}}

Species

{{as of|2019|04}} it contains sixteen species:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/393| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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

References

Category:Araneidae

Category:Araneomorphae genera

Category:Spiders of Asia

Category:Spiders of Madagascar

Category:Spiders of North America

Category:Spiders of South America

Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling