''Pisaura'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelago a ...

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

s in the family Pisauridae.

Taxonomy

The genus name ''Pisaura'' was first published by

Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...

in 1886. In 1757, Carl Alexander Clerck had described a species of spider under the name ''Araneus mirabilis''; later authors placed the species either in '' Dolomedes'' or more usually in '' Ocyale''. Simon stated that the type species of ''Ocyale'' was entirely different from "''Ocyale mirabilis''", so placed the species in a new genus as ''

Pisaura mirabilis The nursery web spider ''Pisaura mirabilis'' is a spider species of the family Pisauridae. Description Striking characteristics of ''Pisaura mirabilis'' are its long legs (the fourth one being the longest) and its slender abdomen (opisthosoma ...

''. In the same publication, Simon also described ''Pisaura valida'', later placed in ''

Afropisaura ''Afropisaura'' is a genus of African nursery web spiders that was first described by P. Blandin in 1976. it contains only three species, found only in Africa: '' A. ducis'', '' A. rothiformis'', and '' A. valida''. See also * List of Pisaurida ...

'' as '' Afropisaura valida''.

Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepted the following species: *'' Pisaura acoreensis'' Wunderlich, 1992 – Azores *'' Pisaura anahitiformis'' Kishida, 1910 – Japan *''

Pisaura ancora ''Pisaura'' is a genus of Eurasian spiders in the family Pisauridae. Taxonomy The genus name ''Pisaura'' was first published by Eugène Simon in 1886. In 1757, Carl Alexander Clerck had described a species of spider under the name ''Araneus m ...

'' Paik, 1969 – Russia, China, Korea *'' Pisaura bicornis'' Zhang & Song, 1992 – China, Japan *'' Pisaura consocia'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Syria *'' Pisaura lama'' Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Russia, China, Korea, Japan *''

'' (Clerck, 1757) (

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

) – Palearctic *'' Pisaura novicia'' (L. Koch, 1878) – Mediterranean to Central Asia *'' Pisaura orientalis'' Kulczyński, 1913 – Mediterranean *'' Pisaura podilensis'' Patel & Reddy, 1990 – India *'' Pisaura quadrilineata'' (Lucas, 1838) – Canary Is., Madeira *'' Pisaura sublama'' Zhang, 2000 – China *''

Pisaura swamii ''Pisaura'' is a genus of Eurasian spiders in the family Pisauridae. Taxonomy The genus name ''Pisaura'' was first published by Eugène Simon in 1886. In 1757, Carl Alexander Clerck had described a species of spider under the name ''Araneus m ...

'' Patel, 1987 – India

References

Pisauridae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Asia {{pisauridae-stub