Priscula is a genus of South American cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[4]
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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: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Priscula Simon, 1893[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. gularis Simon, 1893
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20, see text | |
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Species edit
As of April 2022[update] it contains 20 species, found only in South America:[1]
- Priscula acarite (Huber, 2020) – Venezuela
- Priscula andinensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula annulipes (Keyserling, 1877) – Colombia
- Priscula binghamae (Chamberlin, 1916) – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Priscula bolivari (Huber, 2020) – Venezuela
- Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula gularis Simon, 1893 (type) – Ecuador
- Priscula huila Huber, 2000 – Colombia
- Priscula lagunosa González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula limonensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula paeza Huber, 2000 – Colombia
- Priscula paila (Huber, 2020) – Venezuela
- Priscula pallisteri Huber, 2000 – Peru
- Priscula piapoco Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Priscula piedraensis González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula salmeronica González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula taruma Huber, 2000 – Guyana
- Priscula tunebo Huber, 2000 – Venezuela
- Priscula ulai González-Sponga, 1999 – Venezuela
- Priscula venezuelana Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Priscula Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 128. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Huber, B. A. (1997). "Redescriptions of Eugène Simon's neotropical pholcids (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zoosystema. 19: 595.
- ^ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris 1. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
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