Plutonodomus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Plutonodomus kungwensis | authority = Cooke, 1964 | parent_authority = Cooke, 1964<ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Plutonodomus''''' is a monotypic genus of Tanzanian long-spinneret ground spiders containing the single species, '''''Plutonodomus kungwensis'''''. It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1964,<ref name=Cook1964>{{cite journal| last=Cooke| first=J. A. L.| year=1964| title=A revisionary study of some spiders of the rare family Prodidomidae| journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London| pages=257–305| volume=142| issue=2| doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1964.tb04625.x}}</ref> and is only found in Tanzania.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2457| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018,<ref name=Azev2018>{{cite journal| last1=Azevedo| first1=G. H. F| last2=Griswold| first2=C. E.| last3=Santos| first3=A. J.| year=2018| title=Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)| journal=Cladistics| volume=34| issue=6| page=614| doi=10.1111/cla.12226| doi-access=free| pmid=34706482}}</ref> then returned to Prodidominae in 2022.<ref name=NMBE />

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Category:Prodidominae Category:Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa