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Genus: Perenethis L. Koch, 1878 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Perenethis symmetrica (Lawrence, 1927)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019744

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Described:

Distribution: Senegal, Djibouti, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) Perenethis lejeunei Blandin, 1975 (144355) -

Taxonomic References

Tetragonophthalma symmetrica Lawrence, 1927: 46, pl. 2, f. 33, pl. 3, f. 74 (Df) Original description

Pisaurellus badius Roewer, 1961b: 40, f. 5a-e (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065178]

Perenethis huberti Blandin, 1975: 382, f. 8-9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065180]

Perenethis lejeunei Blandin, 1975: 383, f. 10-12 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065181]

Perenethis symmetrica Sierwald, 1989a: 97 (S of Perenethis huberti and P. lejeunei)

Perenethis symmetrica Sierwald, 1997: 395, f. 34-35, 58, 81 (Dm, f, S of Pisaurellus badius)

Perenethis symmetrica Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q: 49, 8 f. (mf)

References

Blandin, P. (1975). Etudes sur les Pisauridae africaines III. Les espèces des genres Perenethis L. Koch, 1878 et Maypacius Simon, 1898 (Araneae - Pisauridae - Pisaurinae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89(2): 376-393. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020q). The Pisauridae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 61 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7157775 -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1961b). Opilioniden und Araneen. In: Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba. Fascicule II. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 62: 33-81. -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1989a). Genital morphology of the genus Perenethis (Araneae: Pisauridae). Reports from the Department of Biology, University of Turku 19: 97. -- Show included taxa

Sierwald, P. (1997). Phylogenetic analysis of pisaurine nursery web spiders, with revisions of Tetragonophthalma and Perenethis (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Pisauridae). Journal of Arachnology 25: 361-407. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q
2022-10-11	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020q	Old value