Phrurotimpus is a genusofaraneomorph spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie in 1935.[2] The name is a compound adjective meaning "guarding the stone".[3] Originally added to the Liocranidae,[2] it was moved to the Corinnidae in 2002,[4] then to the Phrurolithidae in 2014.[5] They have red egg sacs that look like flattened discs, often found on the underside of stones.[6]
Phrurotimpus | |
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Phrurotimpus alarius | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Phrurolithidae |
Genus: | Phrurotimpus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935[1] |
Type species | |
P. alarius (Hentz, 1847) | |
Species | |
26, see text |
As of December 2022[update] it contains twenty-six species in North America and China:[1]
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