Pisaura
Encyclopedia
Pisaura is a genus
of Eurasia
n spider
s in the family Pisauridae.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of Eurasia
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
n spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
s in the family Pisauridae.
Species
- Pisaura acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 — Azores
- Pisaura anahitiformis Kishida, 1910 — Japan
- Pisaura ancora Paik, 1969 — Russia, China, Korea
- Pisaura bicornis Zhang & Song, 1992 — China, Japan
- Pisaura bobbiliensis Reddy & Patel, 1993 — India
- Pisaura consocia (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Israel, Lebanon, Syria
- Pisaura decorata Patel & Reddy, 1990 — India
- Pisaura gitae Tikader, 1970 — India, Andaman Islands
- Pisaura lama Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 — Russia, China, Korea, Japan
- Pisaura mirabilisPisaura mirabilisThe nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis is a spider species of the family Pisauridae.Males of this species offer food gifts to potential female mates. Some Pisaura mirabilis have also been observed to feign death, remaining still while holding the food gift in their mouths...
(Clerck, 1757) — Palearctic - Pisaura novicia (L. Koch, 1878) — Mediterranean to Georgia
- Pisaura orientalis Kulczynski, 1913 — Mediterranean
- Pisaura parangbusta Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Pisaura podilensis Patel & Reddy, 1990 — India
- Pisaura putiana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Pisaura quadrilineata (Lucas, 1838) — Canary Islands, Madeira
- Pisaura sublama Zhang, 2000 — China
- Pisaura swamii Patel, 1987 — India