Porrhoclubiona Explained

Porrhoclubiona is a genus of sac spiders that was first described as a subgenus of Clubiona by H. Lohmander in 1944.^[1] Clubiona is a polyphyletic group that has been divided and reorganized many times, and whether this genus is a synonym of Clubiona^{[2] [3]} or an independent genus^{[4] [5]} is still under debate.

Species

it contains thirteen species, found in Africa, Europe, and Asia:^[6]

• Porrhoclubiona bosmansi Marusik & Omelko, 2018 – Tajikistan
• Porrhoclubiona decora (Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira, Azores
• Porrhoclubiona diniensis (Simon, 1878) – Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
• Porrhoclubiona genevensis (L. Koch, 1866) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Iran, Central Asia
• Porrhoclubiona laudata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – China
• Porrhoclubiona leucaspis (Simon, 1932) – Europe, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
• Porrhoclubiona minor (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Porrhoclubiona moradmandi Marusik & Omelko, 2018 – Iran
• Porrhoclubiona pseudominor (Wunderlich, 1987) – Canary Is.
• Porrhoclubiona pteronetoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001) – Thailand
• Porrhoclubiona vegeta (Simon, 1918) – Canary Is., North Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Iran
• Porrhoclubiona viridula (Ono, 1989) – China, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan (Ryukyu Is.), Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Is.)
• Porrhoclubiona wunderlichi (Mikhailov, 1992) – Mongolia

In synonymy:

• P. baborensis (Denis, 1937) = Porrhoclubiona diniensis (Simon, 1878)
• P. parallelos (Yin, Yan, Gong & Kim, 1996) = Porrhoclubiona viridula (Ono, 1989)
• P. tenerifensis (Wunderlich, 1992, sub Microclubiona) = Porrhoclubiona vegeta (Simon, 1918)

Notes and References

1. Lohmander. H.. 1944. Vorläufige Spinnennotizen. Arkiv för Zoologi. 1–21. 35.
2. Mikhailov. K. G.. 2012. of the spider genus Clubiona (Aranei, Clubionidae). Vestnik Zoologii. 46. 179. 10.2478/v10058-012-0015-z. free.
3. Breitling. R.. 2019. How not to conduct a scientific debate: a counterpoint to the recent critique of the "pragmatic classification" of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina. 21. 67. 10.37828/em.2019.21.7. 166885396. free.
4. Wunderlich. J.. 2011. Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie. 6. 140.
5. Marusik. Y. M.. Omelko. M. M.. 2018. A survey of the Porrhoclubiona Lohmander, 1944 from Central Asia (Araneae, Clubiondae [sic]). ZooKeys. 802. 22. 30568528 . 10.3897/zookeys.802.30236. 6290047. free.
6. Gen. Porrhoclubiona Lohmander, 1944. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-11-10. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.