Phryganoporus

Taxobox
name = "Phryganoporus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Desidae
genus = "Phryganoporus"
genus_authority = Simon, 1908
diversity_link = List of Desidae species#Phryganoporus
diversity = 5 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =See text.

"Phryganoporus" is a spider genus in the family Desidae. Its five species only occur in Australia and Tasmania, with one species also occurring on Norfolk Island, south of New Caledonia.

The genus is related to the "black house spiders" ("Badumna sp.").

Name

The genus name is derived from Greek "phryganon" "dry stick" and "poros" "hole", referring to the web, which is often built on dry shrubs with a hole as an entrance.

pecies

* "Phryganoporus candidus" (L. Koch, 1872) (Australia, Norfolk Is.)
* "Phryganoporus davidleei" Gray, 2002 (Western Australia, South Australia)
* "Phryganoporus melanopygus" Gray, 2002 (Western Australia)
* "Phryganoporus nigrinus" Simon, 1908 (Western Australia to Queensland)
* "Phryganoporus vandiemeni" (Gray, 1983) (Victoria, Tasmania)

References

* Gray, M.R. (2002). The Taxonomy and Distribution of the Spider Genus "Phryganoporus" Simon (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Desidae). "Records of the Australian Museum" 54:275-292. [http://www.amonline.net.au/pdf/publications/1367.pdf PDF] - ISSN|0067-1975