Palaeoperenethis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lycosoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Lycosoidea

Familia: Pisauridae
Genus: †Palaeoperenethis
Species: †P. thaleri

Name

Type species: †Palaeoperenethis thaleri Selden & Penney, 2009

Etymology

  • From the Greek palaios, "ancient", and an African–Asian genus of Pisauridae which the new genus resembles, Perenethis.

References

  • Selden, P.A. & Penney, D. (2009) A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Natural History 12: 1269–1282. 
  • Silva, E.L.C.D.; Sierwald, P. 2013: On three monotypic nursery web spider genera from Madagascar with first description of the male of Tallonia picta Simon, 1889 and redescription of the type-species of Paracladycnis Blandin, 1979 and Thalassiopsis Roewer, 1955 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 3750(3): 277–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.3.7 Reference page.