Petrichus
| Petrichus | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata | 
| Class: | Arachnida | 
| Order: | Araneae | 
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae | 
| Family: | Philodromidae | 
| Genus: | Simon, 1886[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| P. marmoratus Simon, 1886 
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| Species | |
| 
 14, see text  | |
Petrichus is a genus of South American running crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2]
Species
As of May 2022 it contains fourteen species, found in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Colombia and on the Falkland Islands:[1]
- Petrichus anomalus (Mello-Leitão, 1938) – Argentina
 - Petrichus eremicus Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile
 - Petrichus funebris (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
 - Petrichus griseus Berland, 1913 – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
 - Petrichus junior (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile, Argentina
 - Petrichus marmoratus Simon, 1886 (type) – Argentina
 - Petrichus meridionalis (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
 - Petrichus niveus (Simon, 1895) – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
 - Petrichus patagoniensis Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
 - Petrichus roijunenti Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Chile, Argentina
 - Petrichus sordidus Tullgren, 1901 – Argentina
 - Petrichus spira Griotti & Grismado, 2022 – Argentina
 - Petrichus tobioides Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
 - Petrichus tullgreni Simon, 1902 – Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is.
 
See also
References
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Petrichus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
 - ^ Simon, E. (1886). "Arachnides recueillis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 11: 558–577.
 
