Pararaneus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898)
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| Species | |
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5, see text | |
Species edit
As of April 2019[update] it contains five species:[1]
- Pararaneus cyrtoscapus (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra
- Pararaneus perforatus (Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa
- Pararaneus pseudostriatus (Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa
- Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East
- Pararaneus uncivulva (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Pararaneus Caporiacco, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Caporiacco, L. di (1940). "Alcuni aracnidi di Somalia". Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici. 31: 295–305.
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