Pisaurina
Genus of spiders
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Pisaurina is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898.[3] It likes to live within vegetated areas such as meadows, bushes or tall grass, preferring warm or tropical areas to settle down and reproduce.[4]
| Pisaurina | |
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| Pisaurina mira from Mason Neck, Virginia | |
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| Pisaurina dubia from Woodbridge, Virginia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pisauridae |
| Genus: | Pisaurina Simon, 1898[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. mira (Walckenaer, 1837) | |
| Species | |
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4, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in Canada, the United States, and on the Greater Antilles:[1]
- Pisaurina brevipes (Emerton, 1911) – USA, Canada
- Pisaurina dubia (Hentz, 1847) – USA
- Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837) (type) – USA, Canada
- Pisaurina undulata (Keyserling, 1887) – USA, Cuba