Propostira
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Propostira
| authority = Simon, 1894
| type_species = P. quadrangulata
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1894
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
| P. quadrangulata|Simon, 1894 – India, Sri Lanka
| P. ranii|Bhattacharya, 1935 – India}}
}}
Propostira is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon}} {{as of|2020|06}} it contains two species, found in Sri Lanka and India: P. quadrangulata and P. ranii.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Propostira Simon, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-01| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3528| doi=10.24436/2}}
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–71| volume=127}}
- {{cite journal| last=Bhattacharya| first=G. C.| year=1935| title=A new spider of Bengal, mimicking Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabr.)| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society| pages=960–962| volume=37}}
- {{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=131–160| volume=64}}
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