Petrichus Explained
Petrichus is a genus of South American running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[1]
Species
it contains fourteen species, found in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Colombia and on the Falkland Islands:[2]
- Petrichus anomalus (Mello-Leitão, 1938) – Argentina
- Petrichus eremicus Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile
- Petrichus funebris (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus griseus Berland, 1913 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Petrichus junior (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus marmoratus Simon, 1886 (type) – Argentina
- Petrichus meridionalis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
- Petrichus niveus (Simon, 1895) – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
- Petrichus patagoniensis Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
- Petrichus roijunenti Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile, Argentina
- Petrichus sordidus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina
- Petrichus spira Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
- Petrichus tobioides Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
- Petrichus tullgreni Simon, 1902 – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
See also
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1886. Arachnides recueillis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 558–577. 11. Eugène_Simon.
- Gloor . Daniel . Nentwig . Wolfgang . Blick . Theo . Kropf . Christian . 2022 . Gen. Petrichus Simon, 1886 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0 . 5 May 2022.
