Parasyrisca

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon=Parasyrisca |authority=Schenkel, 1963<ref name=NMBE /> |type_species=''P. potanini'' |type_species_authority=Schenkel, 1963 |subdivision_ranks=Species |subdivision=54, see text }}

'''''Parasyrisca''''' is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by E. Schenkel in 1963.<ref name=Sche1963>{{cite journal|last=Schenkel|first=E.|year=1963|title=Ostasiatische Spinnen aus dem Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris|journal=Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris|pages=1–481|volume=25|issue=A, Zool}}</ref> Originally placed with the sac spiders, it was moved to the Miturgidae in 1967,<ref name=Leht1967>{{cite journal|last=Lehtinen|first=P. T.|year=1967|title=Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha|journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici|volume=4|page=256}}</ref> then to the ground spiders in 1988.<ref name=Ovts1988>{{cite journal|last1=Ovtsharenko|first1=V. I.|last2=Marusik|first2=Y. M.|year=1988|title=Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province)|journal=Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie|volume=67|page=214}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains fifty-four species found throughout Europe to far eastern Asia, with the exception of ''P. orites'', found in the United States and Canada:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Parasyrisca Schenkel, 1963|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|accessdate=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/973|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''P. alai'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan *''P. alexeevi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Caucasus) *''P. altaica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kazakhstan *''P. andarbag'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. andreevae'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. anzobica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. arrabonica'' Szinetár & Eichardt, 2009 – Hungary *''P. asiatica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia), Mongolia *''P. balcarica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Caucasus) *''P. belengish'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. belukha'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. birikchul'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. breviceps'' (Kroneberg, 1875) – Tajikistan *''P. bucklei'' Marusik & Fomichev, 2010 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. caucasica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Caucasus) *''P. chikatunovi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. gissarika'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. golyakovi'' Marusik & Fomichev, 2016 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. guzeripli'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Caucasus) *''P. heimeri'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Mongolia *''P. helanshan'' Tang & Zhao, 1998 – China *''P. hippai'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. holmi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Far East, East Siberia) *''P. iskander'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. khubsugul'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Mongolia *''P. koksu'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. kosachevi'' Fomichev, Marusik & Sidorov, 2018 – Mongolia *''P. kurgan'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. kyzylart'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. logunovi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. marusiki'' Kovblyuk, 2003 – Ukraine *''P. mikhailovi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (Caucasus) *''P. narynica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan *''P. orites'' (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1940) – USA, Canada *''P. otmek'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. paironica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. pamirica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. potanini'' Schenkel, 1963 (type) – Russia (South Siberia), Mongolia, China *''P. pshartica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. schenkeli'' Ovtsharenko & Marusik, 1988 – Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China *''P. shakhristanica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. sollers'' (Simon, 1895) – Mongolia, China *''P. songi'' Marusik & Fritzén, 2009 – China *''P. sulaki'' Fomichev, Marusik & Sidorov, 2018 – Kazakhstan *''P. susamyr'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. terskei'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Kyrgyzstan *''P. tronovorum'' Fomichev, Marusik & Sidorov, 2018 – Mongolia *''P. turkenica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Turkey *''P. tyshchenkoi'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South and East Siberia) *''P. ulykpani'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia), Mongolia *''P. vakhanski'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan *''P. vinosa'' (Simon, 1878) – Europe (Alps, Pyrenees) *''P. volynkini'' Fomichev, 2016 – Russia (South Siberia) *''P. vorobica'' Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Marusik, 1995 – Tajikistan

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Gnaphosidae Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of North America