Prodidomus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Gnaphosoidea

Familia: Gnaphosidae
Subfamily: Prodidominae
Genus: Prodidomus
Species: P. amaranthinus – P. aurantiacus – P. beattyi – P. bendee – P. bicolor – P. birmanicus – P. bryantae – P. capensis – P. chaperi – P. clarki – P. dalmasi – P. djibutensis – P. domesticus – P. duffeyi – P. flavidus – P. flavipes – P. flavus – P. geniculosus – P. granulosus – P. hispanicus – P. inexpectatus – P. kimberleyi – P. lampei – P. lampeli – P. latebricola – P. margala – P. maximus – P. nigellus – P. nigricaudus – P. opacithorax – P. palkai – P. papavanasanemensis – P. purpurascens – P. purpureus – P. redikorzevi – P. reticulatus – P. revocatus – P. robustus – P. rodolphianus – P. rollasoni – P. rufus – P. saharanpurensis – P. sampeyi – P. seemani – P. simoni – P. singulus – P. sirohi – P. tigrinus – P. tirumalai – P. venkateswarai – P. watongwensis – P. woodleigh – P. wunderlichi – P. yorke
Name

Prodidomus Hentz, 1847

Type species: Prodidomus rufus Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, 1847 by monotypy.
Synonymy

Hyltonia Birabén, 1954 (synonymized by Platnick & Baehr, 2006: 9)
Type species: Hyltonia scottae Max Birabén, 1954 by original designation

References
Primary references

Hentz, N.M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5: 443-478. Reference page.

Additional references

Platnick, N.I. & Baehr, B.C. 2006: A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 298: 1-287. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)298[1:AROTAG]2.0.CO;2. Reference page.
Zamani, A., Chatzaki, M., Esyunin, S.L. & Marusik, Y.M. 2021. One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations. European Journal of Taxonomy 751: 68–114. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1381 Open access Reference page.

Prodidomus is a genus of long-spinneret ground spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1847.[3]
Species

As of August 2022 it contains fifty-fivespecies, found in Africa, Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, the United States, on the Greater Antilles, and Saint Helena:[1]

Prodidomus amaranthinus (Lucas, 1846) – Mediterranean
Prodidomus aurantiacus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
Prodidomus beattyi Platnick, 1977 – Australia
Prodidomus bendee Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus bicolor Denis, 1957 – Sudan
Prodidomus birmanicus Thorell, 1897 – Myanmar
Prodidomus bryantae Alayón, 1995 – Cuba
Prodidomus capensis Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
Prodidomus chaperi (Simon, 1884) – India
Prodidomus clarki Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Island
Prodidomus dalmasi Berland, 1920 – Kenya
Prodidomus djibutensis Dalmas, 1919 – Somalia
Prodidomus domesticus Lessert, 1938 – Congo
Prodidomus duffeyi Cooke, 1964 – Ascension Island
Prodidomus flavidus (Simon, 1884) – Algeria
Prodidomus flavipes Lawrence, 1952 – South Africa
Prodidomus flavus Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus geniculosus Dalmas, 1919 – Tunisia
Prodidomus granulosus Cooke, 1964 – Rwanda
Prodidomus hispanicus Dalmas, 1919 – Spain, Greece
Prodidomus inexpectatus Zamani, Chatzaki, Esyunin & Marusik, 2021 – Iran
Prodidomus kimberley Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus lampeli Cooke, 1964 – Ethiopia
Prodidomus latebricola Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
Prodidomus longiventris (Dalmas, 1919) – Philippines
Prodidomus margala Platnick, 1976 – Pakistan
Prodidomus maximus Lessert, 1936 – Mozambique
Prodidomus nigellus Simon, 1890 – Yemen
Prodidomus nigricaudus Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
Prodidomus opacithorax Simon, 1893 – Venezuela
Prodidomus palkai Cooke, 1972 – India
Prodidomus papavanasanemensis Cooke, 1972 – India
Prodidomus purpurascens Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
Prodidomus purpureus Simon, 1907 – West Africa
Prodidomus redikorzevi Spassky, 1940 – Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Prodidomus reticulatus Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
Prodidomus revocatus Cooke, 1964 – Mauritius
Prodidomus robustus Dalmas, 1919 – Ethiopia
Prodidomus rodolphianus Dalmas, 1919 – East Africa
Prodidomus rollasoni Cooke, 1964 – Libya
Prodidomus rufus Hentz, 1847 – Israel, China, Japan, New Caledonia, USA, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, St. Helena
Prodidomus saharanpurensis (Tikader, 1982) – India
Prodidomus sampeyae Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus seemani Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus simoni Dalmas, 1919 – South Africa
Prodidomus singulus Suman, 1967 – Hawaii
Prodidomus sirohi Platnick, 1976 – India
Prodidomus stella (Saaristo, 2002) – Seychelles
Prodidomus tigrinus Dalmas, 1919 – West Africa
Prodidomus tirumalai Cooke, 1972 – India
Prodidomus venkateswarai Cooke, 1972 – India
Prodidomus watongwensis Cooke, 1964 – Tanzania
Prodidomus woodleigh Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia
Prodidomus wunderlichi Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 – Thailand
Prodidomus yorke Platnick & Baehr, 2006 – Australia