Porius

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Porius

Genus of spiders

For the novel by John Cowper Powys, see Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages.

Porius is a genus of Papuan jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1892.[2] As of August 2019 it contains only two species, found only in Papua New Guinea: P. decempunctatus and P. papuanus.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Gen. Porius Thorell, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. [2]
    Thorell, T. (1892). "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 2". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 31: 1–490.


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