{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{About|spiders|characters in Greek mythology|Pronous (mythology)}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pronous 224439795.jpg | image_caption = specimen from Mexico | taxon = Pronous | authority = Keyserling, 1881<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''P. tuberculifer'' | type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1881 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 16, see text | synonyms = *''Zigana'' <small>Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936</small><ref name=Levi1995>{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1995| title=Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=154| page=168}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Pronous''''' is a genus of South American and African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1881.<ref name=Keys1881>{{cite journal| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1881| title=Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. II.| journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien| pages=547–582| volume=30}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains sixteen species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pronous Keyserling, 1881| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/393| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Pronous affinis'' <small>Simon, 1901</small> – Malaysia *''Pronous beatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893)</small> – Mexico to Costa Rica *''Pronous colon'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Costa Rica *''Pronous felipe'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Mexico *''Pronous golfito'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Costa Rica *''Pronous intus'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Costa Rica to Brazil *''Pronous lancetilla'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Honduras *''Pronous nigripes'' <small>Caporiacco, 1947</small> – Guyana *''Pronous pance'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Colombia *''Pronous peje'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Costa Rica, Panama *''Pronous quintana'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Mexico *''Pronous shanus'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Panama *''Pronous tetralobus'' <small>Simon, 1895</small> – Madagascar *''Pronous tuberculifer'' <small>Keyserling, 1881</small> (type) – Colombia to Argentina *''Pronous valle'' <small>Levi, 1995</small> – Colombia *''Pronous wixoides'' <small>(Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936)</small> – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
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Category:Araneidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Madagascar Category:Spiders of North America Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling
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