Pronous
Genus of spiders
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Pronous is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.[3]
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| specimen from Mexico | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Pronous Keyserling, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. tuberculifer Keyserling, 1881 | |
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16, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains sixteen species:[1]
- 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
