Penestomus
Sign in to savePenestomus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Penestomidae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyPenestomidae
Observations recorded95
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Penestomidae
- Collections
- CASC, ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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- taxon name
- Penestomus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Penestomus planus
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Penestomus is a genus of African araneomorph spiders in the family Penestomidae, and was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.
The genus is known only from South Africa and Lesotho, with eight of the nine species endemic to South Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penestomus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.