Propostira

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Propostira | authority = Simon, 1894<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''P. quadrangulata'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1894 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{Specieslist | ''P. quadrangulata''|<small>Simon, 1894</small> – India, Sri Lanka | ''P. ranii''|<small>Bhattacharya, 1935</small> – India}} }}

'''''Propostira''''' is a genus of Asian comb-footed spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1894.<ref name=Simo1894>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}</ref> {{as of|2020|06}} it contains two species, found in Sri Lanka and India: ''P. quadrangulata'' and ''P. ranii''.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Propostira Simon, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-01| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3528| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

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==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–71| volume=127}} *{{cite journal| last=Bhattacharya| first=G. C.| year=1935| title=A new spider of Bengal, mimicking ''Oecophylla smaragdina'' (Fabr.)| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society| pages=960–962| volume=37}} *{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=131–160| volume=64}}

Category:Theridiidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Theridiidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon